on:

COUNTIES. FREE. SLAVE. COTTON,
400 lb. bales.
Johnson, 3,485 206 0
Carter, 5,911 353 0
Washington, 12,671 930 0
Sullivan, 10,603 1,004 153
Hancock, 5,447 202 2
Hawkins, 11,567 1,690 0
Greene, 16,526 1,093 0
Cocke, 7,501 719 3
Sevier, 6,450 403 0
Jefferson, 11,458 1,628 0
Granger, 11,170 1,035 1
Knox, 16,385 2,193 0
Union, new county,
Claiborne, 8,610 660 0
Anderson, 6,391 503 0
Campbell, 5,651 318 1
Scott, 1,808 37 0
Morgan, 3,301 101 9
Cumberland, new county,
Roane, 10,525 1,544 121
Blount, 11,213 1,084 6
Munroe, 10,623 1,188 0
McMinn, 12,286 1,568 2,821
Polk, 5,884 400 29
Bradley, 11,478 744 1,600
Meigs, 4,480 395 2
Hamilton, 9,216 672 0
Rhea, 3,951 436 0
Bledsoe, 5,036 827 0
Sequatche, new county,
Van Buren, 2,481 175 2
Grundy, 2,522 236 24
Marion, 5,718 551 24,413
Franklin, 10,085 3,623 637
Lincoln, 17,802 5,621 2,576

The geographical order of the foregoing list of counties is from
the extreme north-east--Johnson--south-west to Lincoln, on the
Alabama line. I have included a tier of counties the west, which
embrace the summits and western slopes of the Cumberland Hills,
regarding their physical and political features as more
identified with East than Middle Tennessee. Such are Lincoln,
Franklin, Grundy, Van Buren, Cumberland, Morgan and Scott
counties.

I estimate the area of this district as about 17,175 square
miles, an