Joshua Gowan (1813-1899), son of Francis William Gowan and Anne Wilkinson, married Anne Braithwaite in 1837, and immigrated (via New York) to Huntington County, Québec. Descendants lived in Québec, Ontario and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to New York, Michigan, California and elsewhere.

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

First Families of Tennessee is a tribute to these men and women who established the state.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.