W. L. Payne from Tennessee Nov. 6th 1840
State of Tennessee No. 19241. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting. Know ye that in consideration of Military service performed by Lewis Tilly to the State of North Carolina warrant No. 4343, dated the 17th day of December 1796 for 274 acres and entered on the 25th day of April 1809. by No. 3350. There is granted by the State of Tennessee unto Warren L. Payne assignee of said Lewis Tilly, a certain tract or parcel of land containing sixty acres part of said Warrant by survey bearing date the 4th day of February 1811 lying in the first district of Robertson County on the Big Branch of the Red River and bounded as follows to wit: Beginning at a post oak standing about sixty yards North 45 degree East from where Bowmans North boundary line enters McKennons East boundary running thence East ninety poles to a black oak, thence North one hundred six and three fourth poles to two post oaks, thence West ninety poles to a white oak, thence South one hundred Six and three fourth poles to the Beginning. With the hereditaments and appurtenances. To have and to hold the said tract or parsel of land with it appurtenances to the said Warren L Payne 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 Murfeesborough, on the fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three and of the Independence of the United States the forty seventh.
Recorded in the Registers Office of West Tennessee 10th February 1804.
Warren L. Payne is entitled to the Within mentioned tract of land.