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    1. Deeds, Vol 1, page 8
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    3. >From "Register's Office, Land Entry Book" Vol 1, Apr 1824-May 1831, page 8: No 29 $11.25 90 acres Chapman McDonald enters ninety acres of land in Franklin County in consideration of paying $11.25 into the entry takers office at sd. county. Beginning at a post oak in said McDonalds field the same being a northwest corner of a fifty acre tract granted to Geo. Gray & runs south with said Grays line 64 poles to a black oak his southwest corner on another of said Grays lines & west with the same 32 poles to two white oaks slash northeast corner to Enoch Ward 720 acres & with his line west 90 poles to two black oaks, southwest corner to a 200 acres of George Grays & with his line north 136 poles to two white oaks southwest corner to McDonalds 50 acres & with the same Et. 86 poles to Sd. McDonalds 50 acres & with the same south & east to the beginning. May 1824 Geo. Gray, Locator No 30 $12.50 100 acres State of Tennessee. Franklin County. John Fletcher enters one hundred acres of land beginning on Sanford Barrrays(?) east line, beginning on a white oak running on James Cardins east line, thence north for complement so as to include one hundred acres of land, which land is to be bounded by Sanford Barreys line and said Cardins. Note: No date No 31 $6.25 50 acres William Robertson enters fifty acres of land situated & laying in Franklin County on the waters of Bradleys Creek of Elk river-Beginning on a post marked on a corner in presence of Henry Robertson marked W.R. running east one hundred and twenty seven poles thence north for complement. Wm. Robertson, Locator Note: No date No 32 $12.50 100 acres Jesse Jenkins enters one hundred acres of land in Franklin County State of Tennessee, on Bradleys Creek waters of Elk river, beginning on a hickory, corner branded J.J. made in the presence of Henry Robertson, on the west boundary line of a tract of land granted to John Maclin & John Overton also the west boundary line of a tract of land on which sd. Jenkins now lives thence south to the northwest corner of a square ten acre tract on sd. line belonging to sd. Jenkins, thence west, south & east with the lines of sd. ten acre tract to the aforesaid west boundary line, thence south one hundred & forty from the beginning thence west for complement. May 31st, 1824. Jesse Jenkins No 33 $18.50 148 acres Stephen Clark enters a preference of one hundred & forty eight acres of land situated and lying in the county of Franklin & State of Tennessee on the waters of Bradleys Creek on Elk river-Beginning on a hickory marked as a corner in presence of Thos. & Walton Brizey(?), running south to north boundary line of a thousand acre tract known in the name of Daugherty heirs thence west for complement. May 29th, 1824. S. Clark, Locator

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