>From "Register's Office, Land Entry Book" Vol 1, Apr 1824-May 1831, page 164: No 843 $1.50 150 acres John Turner and Martha R. Mann enters one hundred and fifty acres of land on the top of Cumberland Mountain on the waters of Martins fork, beginning on a chesnut not fare from the head of the laurel branch and runs south west to the bench of the mountain and with the bench of the mountain west for complement Feby 15, 1826. John Turner & Martha R. Mann No 844 $.25 25 acres James P. Cowan enters twenty five acres of land lying in Franklin County on the waters of the boiling fork of Elk river, beginning on a beach tree marked thus P. on Capertons line, then with said line 44 poles to a bluff of rocks then with said bluff of rocks southward along the mountain 50 poles then east 35 to a bluff of rocks then northward with the said bluff of rocks to the beginning 16th Feby, 1826. No 845 $1.00 100 acres State of Tennessee Franklin County. William N. Taylor and John Kimbrow locates one hundred acres of land lying on the south side of Elk river, beginning at the south east corner of a 100 acre tract intert(?) in the name of Wm. Taylor running east and north so as to include all the vacant land between John Frames entries and an entry known by the name of Wm. Pinstons Murries Franklin and Wm. N. Taylor's so as not to interfere with my good claims Feby. 10, 1826. Wm. N. Taylor & John Kimbrow No 846 $.50 50 acres John W. Williams enters fifty acres of land. Beginning just above the head spring of the boiling fork on a spur of the Cumberland Mountain on a hickory B. walnut & ceder, being the north west & beginning corner of a cursey originally made of Saml. Tally running with his east line of said survey & eastwardly with Peter Andersons at or near the foot of the mountain thence northwardly thence closing back to John Tallys north boundary line so as to 50 acres in an oblong. 17 Feby. 1826. No 847 $1.25 125 acres Benjamin Elliott enters 125 acres of land lying in the sinking cove of Franklin County, beginning on a hackberry and an elm on the conditional line between sd. Elliott and John Wiliason and being the waters of Crow creek; with the condition ot a sugar tree poplar & oak thence with Tom Elliotts line to a white oak thence with Elliotts old lines to the beginning made and entered this 21st day of February 1826.