Polly Murray Land Grant (1829)
Middle Tennessee Land Grants Book 11, page 453 Grant # 9208
POLLY MURRAY Bedford County Recorded June 25, 1829
{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 One cent per acre, paid into the office of the Entry-Taker of Bedford county, and entered on the 2nd day of January 1826 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, & the acts supplemental thereto by No. 168.
there is granted by the State of Tennessee, unto Polly Murray
a certain Tract or Parcel of LAND, containing One hundred acres by survey bearing date the 18th day of July 1827 lying in said county,
on the headwaters of the middle fork of Rock Creek and bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at a Black Ash, Black Haw and Elm near Jessee McLean’s north west corner on George Cummings South boundary line. Running thence south with McLeams line forty poles to a locust, his corner, thence West with another of his lines forty five poles to John Endsley’s line, a stake & sugar tree, thence north with his line sixty four poles to a stake & Ash, his corner, thence with his line & the line of an Entry in the name of Elizabeth Whitsett ninety nine poles to a large Elm. Thence north one hundred and forty five poles to two sugar trees on Ross’s south boundary line thence north Eighty four & a half degrees East seventy seven poles with said line to the north west corner of the said tract of land Polly Murray now lives on, thence south ninety three poles to her south East corner on Cummings line, thence south with the same Eighty three poles to a white Ash, his corner, thence, East 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 Polly Murray
and her heirs forever.
In Witness Whereof, William Hall, 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 14th day of May in the year of our lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, and of the independence of the United States, the fifty third.
BY THE GOVERNOR: W Hall
Daniel Graham
SECRETARY
contributed by Dick Wood (date unknown)