Benjamin Simmons Land Grant (1826)
Tennessee Land Grant
{SEAL} THE STATE OF TENNESSEE-No.
To all to whom these presents shall come-greetings
KNOW YE, That, for and in consideration of the sum of twelve & 1/2 cent per acre, paid into the office of the Entry-Taker of Bedford county, and entered on the 13th day of July 1824 pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of said state, passed on the twentysecond day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, by No. 350
there is granted by the State of Tennessee, unto Benjamin Simmons
a certain Tract or Parcel of LAND, containing Eleven acres & forty eight poles by survey bearing date the firsrt day of March 1824 lying in said county,
On the head waters of the East fork of Rock Creek of Duck River and Bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning on a red Oak in said Simmons’ line of another tract of land and the county line of Lincoln County. Running South 51 degrees East with the top of the Elk Ridge on county line twenty eight poles to a Chinquapin Oak and Henry Bagley’s line, thence East with his line twelve poles to a Chinquapin Oak, thence North 73 & 1/2 degrees East with the county line thirty six poles to an Elm, thence South 49 degrees East twelve poles to a Hickory on said line and James Kidd’s line. Thence North with his line thirty four poles to an Ash, James Kidd’s corner. Thence South 83 degrees West with said Simmons’ line ninety two poles to the Beginning.
With the hereditaments and appurtenances. To HAVE and to HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of LAND, with its appurtenances, to the said Benjamin Simmons and his heirs forever.
In Witness Whereof, WILLIAM CARROLL, Governor of the State of Tennessee hath hereunto set his hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed, at Nashville, on the 21st day of August in the year of our lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty six, and of the independence of the United States, the fifty first.
BY THE GOVERNOR: Wm Carroll
Daniel Graham
SECRETARY
contributed by Dick Wood (date unknown)