Tennessee became the 16th state on 1 June 1796. The NC Military Reservation for Rev. War service land grants was established earlier in middle Tennessee in 1783. Rebecca Christensen Rex Phillips <r.phillips0288@sbcglobal.net> wrote: Remember that at that time (1812) what is now TN was part of North Carolina and I think that only N. Carolinians were granted bounty lands in what is now TN. Rex Phillips