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