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Jan. 12th 1824 |
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Elihu & Elijah Embree |
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- 1824 We the Jury summoned & sworn in persuance of an order of the County Court of Washington County to view Three Thousand acres of land for the benefit of Elijah Embree's agreeable to an act of Assembly appropreating lands unfit for cultivation for the benefit of Iron Works have this day viewed the following tracts of land and do report them in our estimation unfit for cultivation and so such description as the law contemplated appropiating for the encouragement of Iron Works - situate in the neighborhood of said Embree Bumpus Cove Iron Works & bounded as follows:
- One track containing Seven hundred acres begining at the west corner of a forty acre entry lately made by said Embree in Bumpus Cove running with the line of said entry East to an entry William P. Chester lately made thence along the line of said W.P. Chester's entry to the line of said Embree other lands thence along said Embree's lands & the mountain for Compliment.
- One tract of three hundred acres begining thirty poles from the Second corner of a track of land known by the name of the Lemon Tract on the line of a Three hundred acre Tract of said Embree Bot of W.P. Chester to be one hundred poles wide at the begining and to include a grove of Timber near the head of Wodies Creek.
- One Track Containing Seventy five acres begining at a Gum Saplin Corner to the above mentioned Three hundred Acre Track to include a ________ of the Mountain where a number of Gum Trees Stand.
- One Track containing one hundred acres adjoining a small entry lately made by said Embree on the north side of Bumpus Cove near the three forks of Bumpus Creek to run along the lines of a Track lately owned by Water (?) King and a Track by said Embree Bot of W.P. Chester for compliments.
- One Track of Seventy five acres adjoining the above Tracks near the three forks of the creek on South side of Bumpus Cove.
- One other Track containing twelve hundred acres including the mill Stone Branch begining on the north side of Nolachucky River opposite Reuben Bayless Sawmill to run up a gap in the Buffalo Mountain onto the dividing Ridge between the Mill Stone Branch & dry Creek and to keep on the Ridges that divide the waters of the Mill Stone Branch from other waters until it intersects John Deakins line thence with his line to the Jump Hill thence down the River to the begining.
- One other Track containing two hundred & fifty acres adjoining the lower end of nine hundred and Thirty acres Bought of W.P. Chester on the side of the mountain opposite near the lands of Sam'l Jackson this July 5 1823.
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April Sessions 1824 |
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