Tennessee General  Land Grant Book G, page 265

Robert McCuistion's Grant # 43953 for 20 acres in Lincoln County

Recorded October 1st 1813

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{ SEAL}           THE STATE OF TENNESSEE-No.  4953

To all to whom these presents shall come=greetings

KNOW YE, That, for and in consideration of military service performed by Jeremiah Litteral to the State of North Carolina Warrant No. 3175 dated the 19th day of December 1785 and entered on the 21st day of November 1809 by No. 1982

 

there is granted by the State of Tennessee, unto Robert McCuistion assignee of the Heirs of the said Jeremiah Litteral_ _  _

 

a certain Tract or Parcel of LAND, containing twenty acres part of said Warrant lying in Lincoln County in the Second District on the head waters of Cane Creek of Elk river_ _ _Beginning at an Elm and two Ashes in the South boundary line of Robert McCuistion's eighty acre tract and at the North West corner of Jason Thompson and Newton Cannon's fifty acre entry, running from thence South with Thompson and Cannon's line fifty two poles to three Beeches, thence West with the North boundary line of Thomas Ryan Butler's tract passing his corner, in all sixty one poles and five tenths of a pole to a Lynn & two Pawpaw bushes.  Thence North fifty two poles to a Sugartree and Buckeye, thence East with the South boundary line of said McCuistion's eighty acre tract to the Beginning.

Surveyed the 8th of September 1812 by Daniel Gilchrist, D. S.

 

With the hereditaments and appurtenances.  To HAVE  and to HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of LAND, with its appurtenances, to the said Robert McCuistion

                    and his heirs forever.

In Witness Whereof, Willie Blount, 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 twenty eighth day of  August in the year of our lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and of the independence of the United States, the thirty eighth.

 

BY THE GOVERNOR:  Willie Blount

                                       

                                                                                                                                                W. G. Blount

SECRETARY

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Contributed by Dick Wood

 

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