>From "Register's Office, Land Entry Book" Vol 1, Apr 1824-May 1831, page 57: No 251 $6.25 50 acres co_d Joel Taylor enters fifty acres of land lying in Franklin County on the waters of Duck river for the sum of six dollars & twenty five cents- Beginning on a red oad standing about six poles south of Archie Prarie & about forty poles south of the house where sd. Taylor now lives marked for a corner with the letters J.T. running north one hundred twenty six poles, thence west for complement July 5th 1824 Joel Taylor X his mark Locator No 252 $6.25 50 acres Catherine Adair Anderson enters fifty acres of land in Franklin County on the head waters of Norwoods creek a branch of the Boiling Fork of Elk River-- Beginning ten poles north 80 west from the north end of the rock house--that lies on the left of the place from Sherrod Williams to Crow Creek running south & east for complement. so as to include a Mineral Spring supposed to be Chalebiete spring and including the Rock House 5th July 1824 Wm. P. Anderson, Locator No 253 $12.50 100 acres Richard Henry Lee, enters 100 acres of land lying and being in Franklin County and on the north side of Elk River- Beginning at the corner of the tract of land that said R.H. Lee & Co. bought of Moses Ayres Junr. said to be 1151 acres-- Beginning at the mouth of the mill branch whick said Lees Grist and Saw Mill on--Running thence up the river to noted Spanish oak with the meanderso of sd river to the oak, and west & south & east so to get complement; so as to include the said Lee improvement, July 5th 1824 No 254 $12.50 100 acres William Matlock enters 100 acres of land in Franklin county in consideration of paying $12.50 into the entry takes office-Beginning on the top of the Cumberland Mountain where the path goes up from William Lees at some hickorys where the wolf pen steed and runs Wt with the divide of the waters of Paint Rock & the Boiling Fork 8 poles thence south 160 poles, thence east for complement-July 5th 1824 Geo. Gray, Locator