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The Tennessee historical marker describing the Jacob Brown Grants is located on Tennessee Highway 81 at Thomas Bridge Road. In March 1775 there was a gathering at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River of some 600 settlers and 1,200 Cherokee to transact the sale of lands. The lands sold by the Cherokee to the Richard Henderson & Co are described ...
The settlement was created in 1817 on nearby Hardin’s Creek —on the site of what was later renamed Old Town, Tennessee. [8] Both men executed land grants in the area. [9] They had fought alongside their father in the war and had been likewise rewarded with their own land patents, as well as inheriting some of their father's unclaimed grants ...
The Charles Robertson Grant was one of five property transactions made at Sycamore Shoals in the present day city of Elizabethton, Tennessee.Collectively known as the Watauga Treaties the transactions resulted in the Great Grant Deed, the Path Grant Deed, two Jacob Brown Grant Deeds and the Charles Robertson Grant Deeds.
Online collection and history of the Spanish Land Grants in Florida; made available for public use by the State Archives of Florida. Free online collection of 216,000 land grants issued by North Carolina from 1663 to 1960.
Signs for and against Mayor Freddie O'Connell's transit plan outside the Casa Azafran polling place on Oct. 30, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.
This is a list of land-grant colleges and universities in the United States of America and its associated territories. [1] Land-grant institutions are often categorized as 1862, 1890, and 1994 institutions, based on the date of the legislation that designated most of them with land-grant status.
The land in question within the Great Grant has a common boundary with the lands described in the Path Grant Deed that lies along the crest of Powell's Mountain. [ 56 ] The lines are from the mouth of the Kentucky River where it empties into the Ohio River at Carrollton, then along the Kentucky River and its north fork to a point on Cumberland ...
Thomas received Grants of 4,000 and 1,000 acres of land on Flat Creek, Duck River for his Revolutionary War services. This land was originally located in North Carolina and became part of Tennessee on June 1, 1796, and part of Williamson County, Tennessee in 1799. This land was inherited by his male children through his will.