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    1. [TNHAWKIN] Walker Line and hawkins Co.
    2. Tony Johnson
    3. An early imperfect Tennessee-Kentucky State Line survey taken in 1779, caused the Walker Line Conflict. This, in turn, caused many problems regarding land surveys along that State Line in both East and Middle Tennessee. Some individual tracts in Districts 1 through 6 and near that State Line that ought to be recorded in the Surveyors' Districts records may be recorded in Kentucky records. 9 The U. S. Congressional Reservation PLEASE READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE BROKEN DOWN TO POST ON HAWKINS CO SITE In 1807, the line between the 5th and 6 th Districts was changed to conform to certain, then current county lines. "...the eastern line of the fifth district, dividing said district from the sixth district, shall be the line of Jefferson County, dividing the same from Greene and Hawkins, and the line of Grainger County, dividing the same from Hawkins County and the line of Claiborne County, dividing the same from Hawkins, so as to include all the county of Jefferson, Grainger and Claiborne in said fifth district, and all of the county of Hawkins in the sixth district." 40 This boundary change may have been an administration change rather than a change in any surveyed line. The Surveyors' District Office was located at Knoxville. 41 There is no extant original map of the 5th District. (http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/survdist.htm<http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/survdist.htm>)

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