Tennessee Land Grant

Middle Tennessee Land Grant Book 6, page 288 Grant # 5065

Jese McLane grant for twenty eight acres in Lincoln Co., Tennessee

{ SEAL} THE STATE OF TENNESSEE-No. 5065

To all to whom these presents shall come--greetings

KNOW YE, That, for and in consideration of the sum of twelve & 1/2 cents per acre, paid into the office of the Entry-Taker of Lincoln county, and entered on the 7^th 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. 475

there is granted by the State of Tennessee, unto Jese McLane

a certain Tract or Parcel of LAND, containing Twenty eight acres

by survey bearing date the 23d day of September 1824 lying in said county,

on the head of the middle fork of Cane Creek and bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at a sugar tree , the South East Corner of Widow Whitsett's 50 acres. Running thence South six poles to a stake, thence East 25 poles to a stake, thence North six poles to a sugar tree stump, McAdams North West cornerof his 60 acre tract, thence East with McAdams' North boundary line 79 poles to an Ash, his South East corner, thence North with the West boundary line of the tract said McLane now lives on 33 poles to a Sugar tree stump in the south boundary line of a 50 acre tract in the name of said McLane, thence West with the South boundary line of said 50 acre tract 82 poles to the South West corner thereof, a Buckeye, thence North with the West line of said 50 acre tract 48 poles to a Sugar tree, the South East cornerof a Seven acre tract in the name of said McLane, thence West with the South line of said seven acre tract 22 poles, the South West corner thereof, a Lynn and two Buckeyes in the East line of the widow Whitsetts' 50 acres, thence South with Widow Whitsett's line 81 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 Jese McLane

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 15^th 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