Elizabeth Whitsett Land Grant (1827)

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Middle Tennessee Land Grant Book 6, page 384 Grant # 5061

Elizabeth Whitsett 58 Acres

{SEAL} THE STATE OF TENNESSEE-No. 5061

To all to whom these presents shall come-greetings

KNOW YE, That, for and in consideration of the sum of 12 & ΒΌ cents per acre, paid into the office of the Entry-Taker of Lincoln county, and entered on the 28th day of June 1824 pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of said state, passed on the twenty second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, by No. 188.

there is granted by the State of Tennessee, unto Elizabeth Whitsett

a certain Tract or Parcel of LAND, containing fifty eight Acres by survey bearing date the 15 day of July 1824 lying in said county,

on the head waters of the Middle Fork of Cane Creek and bounded as follows to wit: Beginning at a hickory lettered “JE” in the north boundary of a fifty acre tract belonging to the heirs of Absalom Whitsett, Dec’d, running thence north 80 poles to a chinquipin Oak and Buckeye on the top of the Ridge that divides the waters of Duck and Elk Rivers, thence west 70 poles to a dogwood in the east boundary line of an 8 acre Survey in the name of Elizabeth Whitsett, thence south with said east boundary 40 poles to the south east corner thereof, a popular, thence west with the boundary of said 8 Acre Survey 25 poles. S 148 poles to a sugar tree thence east 25 poles to a bunch of lynns, the South west corner of the 50 Acre tract, thence north with the west boundary thereof one hundred six poles to the north west corner, a black walnut, thence east with the north boundary line 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 Elizabeth Whitsett

and her 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 15th day of January in the year of our lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven, 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)

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