Early Goodmans of America
Tennessee
Tennessee was originally part of western NC. However, due to uncertainties of boundaries, parts of NE Tennessee (Washington Co / Watauga area) were thought by some of the earliest settlers to be part of VA. Settlers of early Tennessee came south down the "Great Wagon Road" from PA and VA, and west across NC, as a natural western expansion of that state's population. The proximity of the Cumberland Gap and development of that route, made E. TN a natural final staging area for many of the early KY pioneers.
The following links document Goodman lines in various Tennessee regions and counties. In order to better reflect the earliest lines and relationships, the several early E. TN counties of Washington, Greene, Sevier and Blount, are contained in the East Tennessee section. While the ancestry of many these early TN Goodmans is well proven, it is impossible to determine with certainty the origins of some others.
