to Duplin Co, NC, Sloan researchers....FYI Here are more accurate and complete details on my comments posted a couple of weeks ago... excerpts from Dickson County, Tennessee deeds: Book A pg 246 This Indenture made 30 Jan 1796 between William Johnson (seller) and David Sloan (buyer), both of Duplin County North Carolina. The land is located in the County of Tennessee, in the territory of the United States south of the Ohio. Containing 500 acres. On Yellow creek above the Chickasaw trace... adjacent to Morgan Drewry and Edward Dickson. This land was part of Military Grant No. 1377. Sale registered in Duplin Co BkN p249 in 1806. Witnesses Gibson Sloan and William Rigbay Sr. There are more details available for the sequence of events in this transaction, see LDS FHC film #0497422. In Bk C p271 Dickson Sloan of Duplin Co, NC is acting as agent for Alexander McGovern & wife to sell 208.5 acres on Yellow Creek to Alexander Dickson of Dickson Co, TN. Sale dated 22 April, 1818. Registered in DicksonCo, TN, Oct-Nov 1819. This shows Duplin County folks went over the mountain for land deals... Gordon Sloan, in Willcox, AZ