>From "Register's Office, Land Entry Book" Vol 1, Apr 1824-May 1831, page 197: No 1000 $0.50 50 acres James McVay enters fifty acres of land in Franklin county (Ten) on the waters of Crow Creek a south branch of Tennessee River Beginning on a white oak and beech X. thus standing on the south side of Cumberland Mountain on the side thereof near the head of the Teague spring cove running southward to the state line with Fossetts twenty acre tract thence with the state line east to ash and poplar on his west corner of a fourteen acre tract entered by himself thence north to the mountain thence west to the beginning bounded by mountain and other lines Sept. the 8th 1826. No 1001 $2.00 200 acres Arehable Yell enters two hundred acres of land situated and lying in the County of Franklin and State of Tennessee and on the head waters of Duck river Beginning on a black oak marked as a corner in presence of Stephen Clark running north and west for complement. Sept. 12th 1826. Alex. Yell, Locator No 1002 $0.25 25 acres Daniel O'Rear (written over name "Soldier in Revolution, drew pension")enters twenty five acres of land in Franklin County on the top of Cumberland Mountain & on the waters of Elk river Beginning at a mountain oak marked as a corner in the presence of John Orear with the letters D.O. running sough thence east for complement so as to include a spring 13th Sept. 1826. No 1003 $1.50 150 acres James Johnson enters one hundred and fifty acres of land in Franklin county State of Tennessee on the waters of little Racoon beginning on a white oak east side of the Indian Camp branch near where it falls over the cleft said tree marked J.J. running due west to Joshua Townsends line thence with said line to his south west corner thence west to the Sewty road thence south to William Reynolds line running with his line to the north east corner thence south thence east to including one hundred and fifty acres of land this 16th Sept. 1826. James Johnson No 1004 $0.50 50 acres William Handley enters fifty acres of land in Franklin County on the head waters of Mud creed a south branch of Elk river in Rowarks cove on the side of Cumberland Mountain Beginning at a black walnut & then on the east side of the tree leading from Rowarks mill to the stand on the barren branch said tree standing near a very large rock about 100 poles from the top of the mountain running from thence west & north for quantity including the locust grove Sept. the 26th 1826. Wm. Handley, Locator