remember,gold was found in ga,reason for removal of indians ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alli :)" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 3:27 AM Subject: Re: [CherokeeGene] heritage > I'm going to have to dig out my paper to see which & what mine > is......this > subject has answered a few questions ;) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joyce Gaston Reece" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 1:15 PM > Subject: Re: [CherokeeGene] heritage > > >> Bounty Land in Tennessee was always for the War of 1812. The Rev. War >> Grants were done before TN was a state so they are listed as North >> Carolina >> Rev. War Land grants in Tennessee. The Hiwassee Purchase formed McMinn >> and >> Monroe Countys. That was the first time a grid system had laid out >> parcels >> of land. They were 6 square miles...36 sections. Each section was 1 sq >> mi. >> Each section was laid out in 'corners'. The corners were northwest, >> northeast, southwest, southeast. Each corner could have been divided >> also. >> They were in 40, 80, 120, 160 or 320 acre portions. >> Several of these were set aside as military grants. Some were already >> laid >> out in 1817-1819 as Cherokee Indian Reservations of 640 acres each (a sq. >> mi.) >> >> So, if the emigrants from Wayne Co, KY were coming into McMinn and Monroe >> to >> move onto Bounty Land grants this would have been the reason why. >> >> >> >> Joyce Gaston Reece >> >> =====*NOTICE THIS*===== >> this is a generic list; and not topic specific because certain chatting >> is >> required to do genealogy; and sort fact from fiction. >> >> Rude people will be moderated asap! >> List archive >> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokeegene >> Dual admin. >> Dan and Joyce >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > =====*NOTICE THIS*===== > this is a generic list; and not topic specific because certain chatting is > required to do genealogy; and sort fact from fiction. > > Rude people will be moderated asap! > List archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokeegene > Dual admin. > Dan and Joyce > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Not really, gold was just one of the reasons but by far not the only one. Joyce Gaston Reece