Hi Janet, Well, your land grants for John Bennett are a little different that the two that I have. (I have a partial of a third but I forgot to make copies of the entire thing). The two that I have list Jonathan Gore as the soldier assigning his land to William Hendry and David Hickman, asignee-William Hendry. The third is the same with a John Hickman as soldier but same wording. There is no money mentioned in the three. You can see that two that I've transcribed at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hendrycousins Go the the "Land" tab on the menue page. One of my earlier ancestors, George Hendry, was granted land in the Northern Neck, VA. for is service in the French and Indian War. I believe he had to pay so much in corn, etc. for this land, but no "taxes?" were mentioned for that land. (I'm not even sure exactly what happened to that land because he sold it to a Campbell while he was in the "goal")LOL But there seems to be some court action about that, so he may have gotten it back. Dont' know. And your grants mention so much per 100. I'm not sure if there was a place in Greene County, per se, named Newbern, but I do know that Newbern, NC. TODAY isn't far from the state line between NC. and TN. The two men, Jonathan Gore and David Hickman, seem to be in Bertie Co., NC. so I don't think that it necessarily means that John Bennett was in Newbern or from Newbern. I have some of the earlier tax lists of Greene County. I'll look to see if John is on any of those. Your grants mentions land on the Nolichuckey. Mine is talking about land in the Cumberland Plateau or in the region. At the time, that was part of Greene County but not anywhere near the Nolichukey. This land is closer to the TN./KY. line, I think. Judging by the wording and my best "guess". Could your land grants have been from a lottery? GA. had lotteries where anyone could get the land, but on occasion, if the purchaser was a Rev. soldier, the sale would mention that fact. I don't know if NC. had lotteries or TN., for that matter. Does anyone know if NC and TN. had land lotteries? Would they have had them this early? GA.'s lotteries were a little bit later, circa 1810 or so. Renaee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet Foster" <jlfoster@fuse.net> To: <TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:36 AM Subject: [TNGREENE] NC Land Grants in Tennessee > Questions about the NC Land Grants in TN. Maybe someone on this list can help. > > I posted several records on the TNGenWeb Greene County in 2000 and can only find them now on RootsWeb message boards. Anyway, one of them was the land grant (portions of), listed below. > > There are no assignees listed here and this was registered in Greene County, TN and witnessed in Newbern, (? NC). Was there a Newbern, TN? If the grant was witnessed in Newbern, does that mean that he was from Newbern or were all legal matters taken care of at Newbern? > > There are no records found of this John Bennet being in the Revolutionary War, serving in NC. Could this have been for service from the state of Virginia? There is a John Bennett listed with Capt Miles Gale's Company, Chowan County, taken 26th Nov 1754. Was this the French & Indian War and could the land grant have been for service in military other than the Rev. War? If John Bennett was granted 300 acres for military service, why did he have to pay ten pounds for every hundred acres? > > Looking for answers, > Janet > =============== > 12371 State of North Carolina to JOHN BENNET for 300 acres on a Branch of Richland Creek --- Registered in Book -B- and page -222- State of North Carolina No 947 > ............... > > the sum of Ten pounds for every Hundred acres hereby granted paid into our Treasury By JOHN BENNET have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto the Said JOHN BENNET a Tract of Land Containing Three Hundred acres, Lying and Being in our County of Greene on a branch of Richland Creek on the north Side of Nolachuckey. > > Said JOHN BENNET Shall Cause this Grant to be Registered in the Registers office of our Said County of Greene within Twelve months from the Date hereof otherwise the Same Shall be void and of no Effect. In Testimony whereof we have Caused these our Letters to be made patent and our Great Seal to be hereunto affixed. Witness ALEXANDER MARTIN, Esquire, our Governor, Captain General and Commander in Chief at Newbern the 26th Day of ( blank here ) in the fifteenth year of our Independence and in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety one.- - - - - - > By his Excell??, Com'd - - - - - ALEXANDER MARTIN > J. GLASGOW, Secretary - - - - > ______John Bennet 300 acres Greene County Recorded in the Secretarys Office - - - -____Registered the ?4th of October 1792 > > > > > > > > > > ==== TNGREENE Mailing List ==== > TNGenWeb's Project for Greene Co > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngreene >