this was posted to another rootsweb forum >Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:23:34 -0600 >From: hogahl@starpower.net >Source: TNHAWKIN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: Early Hawkins deed books > > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3396.1.2 > >Message Board Post: > >Peggy, >I appreciated your response to my inquiry about the deed books. The cites below give an indication of my problems. In most cases, I did not see these records myself. They were collected from various sources, and I don’t know how careful the researchers were about their citations. Some of them seem to be incomplete – e.g., the 1791 (5 Sept) record cite specifies “op. cit.” [referring back to the 1790 (2 Jan) record], but the page number (35) is lower than that of the earlier record (77). So that raises the question: is the 1791 deed actually recorded in Deed Book 3 rather than 2? The same thing applies to the last two in the list – the 10 June, 1793 record cite indicates “op. cit.” in reference to the preceding one but, again, has a lower page number, raising the question as to whether the later deed is really recorded in Book 4? Can you tell me how many deed books we are dealing with during that 1790-1801 peri! > od? Should the 1795 transfer to Wm. Cocke have a deed book reference? > Also, regarding the 1791 (21 Nov) record, which cites what appears to be a later compilation of several books into one that covers a 12-year period, am I right that you say that such compilations were put together by the WPA project and involved only indices? If that’s the case, I can’t figure how where the actual data came from. And is the exact title of the compilation as it appears in that 1791 cite or in the later one that specifies “Tennessee Records of Hawkins County, Deed Book No. 1, 1788 – 1800.”? Then there is the 1795 cite to “Hawkins County Tennessee Grant Books 1 & 2, 1787 – 1819. ???? > >I hate to bother you with these questions, but I’m sitting up in D. C., far away from Rogersville. I have checked the LoC and the D.A.R. collections, and they are both very limited in this area. Thanks for whatever help you can give me. Harry > > >Hawkins Co. land deed transfers: 1790 - 1801 > >1790 (2 Jan) - For 500 lbs, William Cloud of Stokes Co., NC, sold James Armstrong of Patrick Co., VA, 640 acres on both sides of Poor Valley Creek. [Hawkins Co., TN, Deed Book 2, p. 77] > >1791 (5 Sept) - For 100 lbs, Jason Cloud of Hawkins Co., TN, sold the heirs of A. Campbell 300 acres in Carter's Valley, adj. to Robert Campbell. [Hawkins Co., TN., op. cit., p. 35] > >1791 (21 Nov) – William Cloud sold 640 acres on north side of Holston River to William Cocke for 200 pounds Virginia currency. The deed was registered on 8th August, 1792. Witnessed by W. Gillim, W. Owen and W. Donelson. [Hawkins County Deed Book No. 1, 1788 – 1800, p. 138] > >1793 (5 May) – Isaac Cloud, Grant No. 341 for 640 acres in Hawkins County. [Hawkins Co., TN, Deed Book 3, p.191] > >1793 (10 Jun) - For 200 lbs, Isaac Cloud of Rutherford Co., NC, sold Joseph Cloud of Hawkins Co., TN, 160 acres on the N. side of the Holston, known as the Blue Springs. Witnessed by Jas. McCarty, Jason Cloud, Wm. Condery. [Hawkins Co., TN, op. cit., p. 93] > >1793 (9 Sept) – “For 60 lbs, Isaac Cloud of Rutherford Co., NC, sold Jno. Henderson of Hawkins Co. 44 1/2 acres on N side of Holston where J.H. now lives. Wit: Benjn. Cloud, Wm. Henderson.” [Hawkins Co., TN, op. cit., p. 136] > >1793 (23 Oct) - Isaac Cloud assigned to ? (name illegible) 25 acres in Hawkins Co., TN, on the north side of the Holston River. [ ? Grant 451, Entry 516, Book 80, p. 290] > >1794 (28 March) - For $400, Isaac Cloud of Rutherford Co., NC, sold Benjamin Cloud of Hawkins Co. 160 acres on N side of Holston River, above mouth of Poor Valley Creek. Wit: Shadrack Hale, Wm. Henderson. [Hawkins Co., TN, op. cit., p. 149] > >1795 (25 Apr) – Joseph Cloud, of the County of Hawkins and Territory South of the Ohio, sold 230 acres to James Armstrong of Hawkins County for the sum of 257 pounds. The land was located on the north side of Holston River on the waters of Poor Valley Creek adjoining the lines of Richard Mitchell, Joel Dyer and others. The deed was registered on 15th March, 1796. Witnessed by Henry Rowan and Moses Rhea. [Tennessee Records of Hawkins County, Deed Book No. 1, 1788 – 1800, p. 190] > >1795 (28 May) – “Jason Cloud to W. Cocke, registered 10th February, 1799. Know all men by these presents that I Jason Cloud for and in consideration of the full and just sum of one thousand dollars to me in hand paid by William Cocke the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge hath bargained sold enfeoffd (sic) and confirmed unto William a certain tract or parcel of land lying in the county of Hawkins containing six hundred and forty acres be the same more or less to have and to hold the said bargained premises from me my heirs and assigns or from any person claiming by from or under me which said land was granted unto the said Jas. Cloud the 20th day of September 1787 and No. 432 and bounded as follows beginning at a leaning beech on the south side of Holston River then with the meander down the said River to a poplar and black oak on a Cliff of rocks at the lower and thence south one hundred and forty six poles to a white oak then east three hundred poles ! > to a stake then north three hundred and five poles to a stake then west one hundred poles to the beginning and known by the name of the little horse shoe which said land together with appurtenances I do by these presents grant unto the said William Cocke his heirs and Co from me and my heirs and Co or from all manner of persons claiming by from or under me as witness my hand and seal this 28th day of May, 1795.” (Signed) Jason Cloud (Seal) Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Joshua Allison, Jacob Dyer. Hawkins County November term, 1798. This deed was proven in open court, Let it be registered.” Richard Mitchell, Clerk. [Hawkins County Deed Book, p. 276] > >1795 (15 Aug) – Joseph Cloud and John Medcaff did a survey on both sides of Caney Fork on the waters of Poor Valley Creek for John Laithem, assignee of Samuel Reeves. McNamara, Billie R. Hawkins County Tennessee Grant Books 1 & 2, 1787 – 1819, p 191] > >1801 (22 Dec) -- For $13 1/3, Joseph Cloud to Robert Coile, both of Hawkins Co., TN, sells 150 acres on Hickory Cove, adj. Joel Gillenwater. Wit: Benjamin Cloud, John Denny. (Hawkins Co., TN. Deed Book 3, p. 47) > >1802 (16 Dec) – To Isaac Cloud, Grant No. 870, Warrant No. 88, for 640 acres in Hawkins County. [Hawkins County Deed Book C, p. 409] > >1808 (19 Mar) - For $1,000., Isaac Cloud of Rutherford Co., NC, sells 100 acres on Holston River, known as Cables Island, to Mark Mitchell of Rutherford Co. (NC or TN?). Witnesses: Arthur Cable, John W. Flowers, Isaac Cloud, Jr. [Hawkins Co., TN, Deed Book 6, p. 351]