{"id":1189,"date":"2020-12-23T10:13:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/crockett\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2020-12-23T10:13:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:13:24","slug":"william-davis-cozart-land-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/crockett\/2020\/12\/23\/william-davis-cozart-land-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"William Davis Cozart Land Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

West Tennessee Land Grant
To William Davis Cozart
Entered June 17, 1848
Book 10, page 305
In 1871 this area became Crockett County Civil District 3.

<\/strong>Tennessee State Library and Archives
Microfilm #181
Transcribed by Denise Cozart
July 2002

Background:
<\/strong>This land grant was awarded posthumously to William Davis Cozart, his death occurring around December 1846. The grant then went to his widow, Susana Boals Cozart, This tract was in Madison County, 18th<\/sup> Civil District, near the waters of Cypress Creek. We know the civil district from the 1865 sale of this property by William Davis Cozart’s sons. See 1865 Cozart-Spraggins deed. In 1871 this area became Crockett County, Civil District 3. Gadsden was the big town of the district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        The land in this grant was measured in poles and acres:
        1 pole = 16 1\/2 feet
        1 mile = 320 poles = 5,280 feet
        1 acre = 160 square poles = 43,560 square feet
        1 square pole = 272 1\/4 feet
        640 acres = 1 square mile<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:<\/strong>
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
<\/strong>
Know ye<\/strong>, That for and in consideration of the sum of Fees of Office, paid into the Office of the Entry-taker of Madison County, and entered on the 17 day of June 1848 pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of said State, passed 2d day of November 1847, by No. 443, THERE IS GRANTED<\/strong> by the said State of Tennessee, unto William D. Cozart a certain tract or parcel of land, containing Fifty Acres by survey, bearing date the [blank] day of [blank] 18[blank] lying in said county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Range 2, Section 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning at an Ash, poplar, hickory & white oak prs [pointers] the N.E. Corner of Res. Claim No. 146 for 50 Acres in the name of George Allen & in the West boundary line of Entry No. 203 for 640 Acres in the name of F. W. Huling. Thence West with said Res. Claim 70 poles to a Stake, Maple, Ironwood, hickory & White Oak prs: Then North 88 9\/10 poles to a Stake, hickory & 3 White oaks: Then East 90 poles to a Stake, hickory, \u2026oak prs: \u2026 West boundary of Entry No. 203: Then South with its line 80 9\/10 poles to the Beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the hereditaments and appurtenances. To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land, with its appurtenances, is the said William D. Cozart and his heirs forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In witness whereof, N. S. Brown 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 1 day of April in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and 49 and of the Independence of the United States, the 73rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the Governor:         N. S. Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

W. B. A. Ramsey
<\/strong>Secretary of State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A very special thank you to Denise Cozart, who transcribed and contributed this document for use on this web site.
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