This transcription of a land document was posted by Donna Hinson, [email protected] I enjoyed seeing it, thought I would pass it on in case someone else like me had not seen a land patent document before. Donna STATE OF TENNESSEE--NO. 7455 (Unreadable)........ these presents shall come=GREETING ........., That, for and in consideration of the sum of one cent per acre, paid into the office of the Entry-Taker of Wilson county, and entered on the 3d day of March 1826 pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of said state, passed on the twenty second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty three, the acts supplemental thereto by No. 332 there is granted by the said State of Tennessee unto Jeremiah Bowers a certain Tract or Parcel of LAND, containing Sixty-three acres & 120 poles by survey bearing date the 5th day of March 1826 lying in said county, On the waters of Cedar Creek and bounded as follows to wit Beginning at two white oak Saplings on Easons South boundary line Running thence with his line West one hundred and two poles to a white oak and Cedar on Duns east boundary. Thence South with his line one hundred poles to an Elm and hickory on said east boundary. Thence East one hundred and two poles to a stake in Lyons West boundary. Thence North one hundred poles to the beginning. With the hereditaments and appurtenances. To have and to hold the said Tract or Parcel of LAND, with its appurtenances, to the said Jeremiah Bowers and his heirs forever. In Witness Whereof Samuel Houston 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 20 day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight and of the independence of the United States, the fifty-second. By the Governor: Sam Houston Daniel Graham, Secretary.