Iron Works Petitions

Washington County, Tennessee

From Washington County, TN LIST OF TAXABLES – sorted, abstracted and copied by T.E.B.A. Project No. 9n-F4-54 and W.P.A. Project No. 65-44- 258. The late Mary Hardin McCown was in charge of this project. Transcribed by Dessie Little Simmons.

1816 Wm. P. Chester Petition

1816 Wm. Blair Petition

1820 Elijah & Elihu Embree Petition

Landon Carter’s Petition [no date]

1824 Elijah Embree’s Petition

1824 Spencer E. Gibson Petition

1824 Wm. P. Chester Petition

1852 Bill of Sam’l Patterson’s work at Cranberry Forge

1816 PETITION FOR IRON WORKS

State of Tennessee
Washington County  To the worshipful, the Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Session of Said County

The petition of William P. Chester to your worships respectfully sheweth that he is now about to build iron works in Bumpus Cove within said County that he has a Considerable quantity of granted land there is immense body of vacant and unappropriated land unfit for cultivation he therefore prays your worship to grant him a Jury of view to lay off according to act of assembly three thousand acres of land on each side of this the said petitioner’s land for the use of said works in said cove and make report there-of the next session of this court of your petitioner.

William P. Chester
Reuben Bayles
Daniel Bayles
John Hampton
John Shannon
Jacob Brown
Wm. Colyer, Sen.
Wm. Colyar, Jun.
Jacob Gyer
William Templin
Joseph Rodgers
John May
Samuel Keplinger
To the worshipfull the Justice of the Court of Pleas now sitting the Petition of Wm. P. Chester to your worships respectfully represent that he is the proprietor of a valuable seat for Iron Works in Bumpus Cove Contingent to which are immense bodies of Iron ore that he is Desireous of Improving said seat for that highly and usefull purpose & prays your worships to appoint a Jury to lay off & condemn for him three thousand acres of land unfit for Cultivation, adjacent to said seat according to Act of Assembly the same to be laid off on the East or Lemon line of Lemon tract and to run with Jonathan Tucker land so as to include Vaddy Creek from the river to Embree upper corner of creek in two or more tracts & return a report to the next Session of the Court & your Petitioner will be in duty bound.

Jan. 12th 1824   William P. Chester
JURORS
Reuben Bayles, Sr.
Samuel L. Bayles
Jacob Maruen (?)
Wm. Colyer, Esq.
Alex Colyer
George Hundly
Isaac Hartsell
Thomas More, Sr.
Joseph Rodgers
John Keplinger
Reuben Rodgers
John Shannon
James Sevier
Jany Term 1824  This prayer granted and Jury Named appointed.
John Patton, Chairman

1816   PETITION FOR IRON WORKS

State of Tennessee
Washington County        To the worshipfull, the Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions now sitting
The Petition William Blair to your worship respectfully sheweth that he has now the iron work built by William P. Chester on Nolichucky river that heretofore the said William former proprietor favored the condemnation of three thousand acres of vacant & unappropreated land for the use of said works but on examination it ascertained that such tract as was condemned on the North Side of said River is principally covered by title of older date, he therefore prays your worship to appoint him a Jury of view to lay off for the use of said works the residue of three thousand acres on Actons Branch on the Mill Stone branch or both and that said lot so laid off was the north Side of Said river so as aforesaid covered by older title be set aside and your petition prays.
William Blair
John Hampton
Reuben Bayles
Daniel Bayles
John Shannon
Wm. Colyer, Sen.
Wm. Colyar, Jun.
Jacob Brown
Joseph Rodgers
Jacob Gyer
William Templin
John May, Jr.
Wm. P. Chester

April Sessions 1816 ordered by Court that the prayer of the petitioner be granted and the above named persons be a Jury to lay off the same.

1820 PETITION FOR IRON WORKS

 To the honorable Court for the county of Washington Tennessee now in Session in Jonesborough

The petition of the under Subscribers humbly sheweth that they being engaged in the business of Iron Works, in your County on Nolichucky river, wish to avail themselves of the benefits of an act of the General Assembly of this State passed Nov. 2nd 1809 to encourage the building of Iron Works and for this purpose they pray your honorable body to appoint a jury of twelve freeholders, to view & lay off three thousand acres of such land as the law allows, for the use of their forge which is now in operation on Nolichucky river.

They also having it in prospect to erect a blast furnace for the purpose of making castings & pig iron, in Bumpus Cove, about two miles distant from the said forge, wish the same jury to be authorised to lay off three thousand acres of land for the use & benefit of the said intended furnace.

4th Month 19th 1820 
Elihu & Elijah Embree
Jury to wit the same as appointed.

1824 ELIJAH EMBREE’S PETITION

To the worshipfull Court of Pleas & Quarter Session for Washington County
January term 1824
Your petitioner humbly represents that he entered building on Iron Works in this County on the waters of Nolichucky river about eleven miles from Jonesborough in the vacinity of which there is large quantities of unappropriated land unfit for cultivation (to wit) near the land of John Dekins, Abram Bails, Jonathan Tucker, Phillip Parks and other land of your petitioner Your petitioner therefore humbly prays your honourable body to appoint a jury of view & report three thousand acres of land in the vacinity of his intended
Iron Works agreeable to an act of the General Assembly of this State entitled an Act to encourage the building of Iron Works Your petitioner has never applied for land for the benefit of the above named Iron Works before. As in duty bound your petitioner will ever pray.

Elijah Embree
The prayer of the petition granted and ______________
James Sevier
John Shannon
Alexander Colyer
Isaac Williams
John Dekins
Jonathan Tucker
Reuben Bayles, Sr.
John Booth
Phillip Parks
Joseph Rogers
Jacob Hartsell
Jacob Brown, Col

REPORT OF JURY ON ELIJAH EMBREE’S PETITION

1824 We the Jury summoned & sworn in persuance of an order of the County Court of Washington County to view Three Thousand acres of land for the benefit of Elijah Embree’s agreeable to an act of Assembly appropreating lands unfit for cultivation for the benefit of Iron Works have this day viewed the following tracts of land and do report them in our estimation unfit for cultivation and so such description as the law contemplated appropiating for the encouragement of Iron Works – situate in the neighborhood of said Embree Bumpus Cove Iron Works & bounded as follows:
 One track containing Seven hundred acres begining at the west corner of a forty acre entry lately made by said Embree in Bumpus Cove running with the line of said entry East to an entry William P. Chester lately made thence along the line of said W.P. Chester’s entry to the line of said Embree other lands thence along said Embree’s lands & the mountain for Compliment.
 One tract of three hundred acres begining thirty poles from the Second corner of a track of land known by the name of the Lemon Tract on the line of a Three hundred acre Tract of said Embree Bot of W.P. Chester to be one hundred poles wide at the begining and to include a grove of Timber near the head of Wodies Creek.
 One Track Containing Seventy five acres begining at a Gum Saplin Corner to the above mentioned Three hundred Acre Track to include a ________ of the Mountain where a number of Gum Trees Stand.
 One Track containing one hundred acres adjoining a small entry lately made by said Embree on the north side of Bumpus Cove near the three forks of Bumpus Creek to run along the lines of a Track lately owned by Water (?) King and a Track by said Embree Bot of W.P. Chester for compliments.
 One Track of Seventy five acres adjoining the above Tracks near the three forks of the creek on South side of Bumpus Cove.
 One other Track containing twelve hundred acres including the mill Stone Branch begining on the north side of Nolachucky River opposite Reuben Bayless Sawmill to run up a gap in the Buffalo Mountain onto the dividing Ridge between the Mill Stone Branch & dry Creek and to keep on the Ridges that divide the waters of the Mill Stone Branch from other waters until it intersects John Deakins line thence with his line to the Jump Hill thence down the River to the begining.
 One other Track containing two hundred & fifty acres adjoining the lower end of nine hundred and Thirty acres Bought of W.P. Chester on the side of the mountain opposite near the lands of Sam’l Jackson this July 5 1823.
 Jacob Brown
James Sevier
Reuben Rogers
John Dekins
Wm. Colyar
John Shannon
George Hunly
Jonathan Tucker
John Bayles
Joseph Crouch
Dan’l L. Bayless
Henderson Clark

EMBREE’S IRON WORKS LOCATION PETITION

For reason appearing to the Court from the petition of Elijah Embree it is ordered by the Court that James Sevier, Daniel L. Bayless, John Deakins, George Henly, William Colyar, John Shannon, Col. Jacob Brown, Jonathan Tucker, Henderson Clark, John Bayles, Joseph Crouch, Reuben Rogers be a Jury to view and Report to our next Court of Pleas & If there be any land in the neighborhood of Elijah Embree’s Iron Works in Bumpus Cove in this County unfit for cultivation to the end if so it may be adjudged and laid off for the use of the Iron Works of the petitioner Elijah Embree according to acts of Assembly in such case made and provided.

A true Copy from the Records
Test: Matthew Stephenson Clk.
By Robert McLin D.C.
I do hereby deputise William Gott to summons the within named Jurors and make return thereof.
July 1st 1823
Samu’l Hunt Sheriff of Washington County
named the within Jury to meet & view the land on the 5th July 1823.
William Gott

State of Tennessee
To the worshipful Court of Washington County now convened

Gentlemen: Please to grant your petition, a Jury of review, on the road running through the land where Abraham Tipton formerly lived, and Leading from Jonesborough to Embree’s Iron Works and to North Carolina. Gentlemen your compliance will oblige your petitioner, who will ever Bound July 8th,

1822.  John Tipton

 The prayer of the within granted and ordered, that Abraham Jobe, .Jas. R. Young, Jas. Robison, John Cleper, John Harvard, Chaney Boring, James Price & Thos Price be Juror to view of said road.

1824 PETITION FOR IRON WORKS

State of Tennessee
Washington County
April Sessions 1824

Spencer E. Gibson having presented a petition to the Court praying the appointment of a Jury to lay off & condemn three thousand acres of land for the benefit of his intended Iron Works. It is therefore ordered by the Court that Thomas Brown, Alex Colyar, John Bayles, James Cloyd, Robert McKee, William Slemmons, Jacob Brown, Jr., Gabriel Brown, John Booth, Samuel Cloyd, Henry Sliger, George Hendly, Daniel L. Bayles, Reuben Bayles, Jr., Jacob Hartsell, Isaac Hartsell, David Robertson, John May, William Templin, Srn., & Philip Rinehart be nominated but of whom the Sheriff is to summons twelve to be a Jury to lay off and condemn three thousand acres of land unfit for cultivation on or near Clark’s Creek on the south side of Nolachucky river Begining at E. Embree’s south west line and running so as to include a site on Clark’s Creek and all other lines that shall be adjudged by the Jury binding on the river tracks so far below John Clark’s town line as may be convient and back for compliment in one or more surveys including & excluding two small surveys on Clark’s Creek one of Henderson’s and the other of Wm. Clark’s and one of E. Embree’s according to the law in such case made and provided and make report thereof to the next term of this Court.

 A true copy from the records 5th June 1824

Jas. Sevier, Clk.

BILL OF SAM’L PATTERSON’S WORK CRANBERRY FORGE

1852

COL. CARTER’S ENTRIES FOR 3000 ACRES OF LAND FOR IRON WORKS

[No date] Landon Carter Enters 1500 acres of land as a Boundry for Iron Works in the fork of Wataugah and Doe River Joining the Land of said Carter also Isaac Lincoln, Godfry Carriger, Teter Nave, Leonard Bowers, William Duggard, Elisha Humphreys, David Matlock, Deceased and Emanuel Carter, Deceased. Also 1500 acres on the South of Doe River Joining the lands of Sam’l Tipton, Michael Tullis, David Matlock, Thomas Millsaps, William Sharp, Rich’d Kite, Isaac Eden, Sen., Wm. Bundy, Josiah Clarke, Ralph Humphreys & Joshua Houghton, Sen.

 A copy
 Test: John Carter, E. T. (Entry Taker)
Jurors
 Jonathan Buck, Julius Conner, Pharoh Cobb, Abraham Sevier, Geo. Emmert, Andrew Greer, Sen., Andrew Greer, Jun., Alex’d Greer, Godfrey Carriger, Sen., Nicholas Carriger, Michael Carriger, & Godfrey Carriger, Jun.

 The demand on Capt. Cocke for the afore said Carter but he said that he would not let him have it and gave for reason why he did not let him have it that his Brethren John Sevier and Wm. Cocke was not at a good understanding and that he did not like to have Cocke pushed or words to that Effect