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    1. Deeds, Vol 1, page 235
    2. Rose Birdwell
    3. >From "Register's Office, Land Entry Book" Vol 1, Apr 1824-May 1831, page 235: No 1181 $0.50 50 acres Newton Murray enters 50 acres of land in Franklin County on the barren fork of Duck river Beginning on the north east line of the lower 5000 acre survey where it crosses barren fork below the falls and runs east through the fort it corners on the band of barren fork and runs west with said line to David Hickersons senior line & then north and then east & so around as other lines may permit to the beginning the 5th day of June 1827 Newton Murray No 1182 $1.00 100 acres Thomas Flippo enters one hundred acres of land in Franklin County waters of Rock creek Beginning at William Farris north west corner of the sixty acre tract adjoining the fifteen acre tract on which he now lives entered by said Farris on the 23rd June 1824 running north thence east thence south thence west for complement not to interfere with prior claims June the 9th 1827 No 1183 $1.00 100 acres William Gibson enters one hundred acres of land in Franklin County waters of Crow creek Beginning on a red oak marked W.G. about two hundred yards south east of a spring near which Madison Sargent made an improvement runs north and east for complement June the 9th 1827. No 1184 $0.25 25 acres William Runnels enters twenty five acres of land in Franklin County & State of Tennessee on the east fork of Paint rock it being a north branch of Tennessee River and bounded as follows to-wit. Beginning on a black watnut and at the foot of the mountain a distance of about one hundred yards from an old improvement of Edward Morris & Littleton Shefett & west of a south direction from said improvement and meandering the mountain northwardly & eastwardly so far that a west line will run to the beginning & include twenty five acres & said Edward Morris & Littleton Shofett improvement June the 12th 1827 No 1185 $4.00 400 acres George W. Hively enters four hundred acres of land lying on the dividing waters of Elk and Duck rivers Franklin county State of Tennessee Beginning on the beginning corner of a one hundred acre tract entered in the name of said Hively running south thence east thence north for complement excluding all the former entries June 18th 1827

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