Hardy Murfree Land Grant (1808)
Tennessee General Land Grant Book A, page 465
Hardy Murfree Grant No. 723 for 700 Acres Recorded March 31-1809
{SEAL} THE STATE OF TENNESSEE-No.
To all to whom these presents shall come–greetings
KNOW YE, That, for and in consideration of Military service performed by William Boswell to the State of North Carolina, warrant No. 3594, dated the 27-day of June 1788 and entered on the 28 day of August 1808 by No. 363
there is granted by the State of Tennessee, unto Hardy Murfree, assignee of the said William Boswell
a certain Tract or Parcel of LAND, containing Seven hundred acres, the residue of said Warrant,
lying in Bedford County in the Second District, third range and fourth section on the West waters of the East fork of Rock Creek. Beginning at an Ash, Ironwood and Lynn, the same being the North West corner to Cpt. John Medaris’ thirty five hundred and ninety six acre tract, number of entry: forty three, number of location drawn, forty four. Running thence with said Medaris’ West boundary line South crossing a small creek at two hundred and forty poles, in all five hundred and ten poles to a Lynn, Beech and Sugartree in said Medaris’ West boundary line, thence West two hundred and nineteen and six tenth poles to two Ash saplings in Felix Robertson’s East boundary line, thence with the same North, crossing a dry drain at seventy two poles, crossing a branch running to the right at two hundred and eight poles, crossing the above mentioned creek at two hundred and sixty eight poles, passing said Robertson’s corner, in all five hundred and ten poles to a Stake, thence East to the Beginning – Surveyed June 16-1808 –
With the hereditaments and appurtenances. To HAVE and to HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of LAND, with its appurtenances, to the said Hardy Murfree
and his heirs forever.
In Witness Whereof, John Sevier, Governor of the State of Tennessee hath hereunto set his hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed, at Knoxville, on the sixteenth day of December in the year of our lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the independence of the United States, the thirty third.
BY THE GOVERNOR: John Sevier
R. Houston
SECRETARY
contributed by Dick Wood (date unknown)