The life and writings of Moses Fisk
By: compiled and edited by Tim Barlow.
Contributors: Barlow, Tim.
Publisher: Barlow
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Crossville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Fisk, Moses, 1759-1843.; Fisk family.; Pioneers -- Tennessee -- Biography.; Tennessee -- History.; Tennessee -- Biography.
Description: Biographical sketch of Moses Fisk (1759-1843), followed by some of his writings, and concluding with his ancestry and descendants. He was a frontiersman, educator, theologian, and lawyer of Tennessee's upper Cumberland region, and is "... famous nationally for founding Fisk Female Academy at Hilham, Tennessee, in 1806 (the first such institution in the south)." (p. 3).
Notes: Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 213.
Table of contents: title: Barlow, T. The life of Moses Fisk.; title: Fisk, M. Historical sketch of Tennessee.; title: Fisk, M. Tyrannical libertymen.; title: Fisk, M. Conjectures respecting the ancient inhabitants of North America.; title: Michaux, F. A. A journey through middle Tennessee with Moses Fisk.; title: Survey of the line between Tennessee and Virginia.; title: Moses Fisk's correspondence.; title: Moriarty, G. A. The Fiske family of Laxfield, Suffolk County, England.; title: Bond, H. The New England ancestors of Moses Fisk.; title: Christian, H. C. The descendants of Moses Fisk.