TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING; Know Ye, That in consideration of an ENTRY made in the ENTRY TAKER'S OFFICE of Blount County, of No. 256 dated the 3rd day of January 1826 by William H Salmon
there is GRANTED by the State of Tennessee unto the said William H Salmon and his heirs, a Certain TRACT OF LAND containing six hundred and forty - - - - - - - acres lying in the county aforesaid, on the waters of Nails Creek. Beginning at a pine, corner to the ocpt. Survey, made by Wlam. Martin, thence with the same North, fifty sine? East, forty sise? chain to a stake South thirty East with the same, in part, fifty chain to a black oak, on the top of a spur of Bays mountain, thence along the same North sixty East, one hundred and twenty chain, to a small hickory Sapling, North thirty West, one hundred and sixty chain, to a stake and pointers, South sixty West, one hundred and sixty five chain, to a small blackjack, South thirteen East, eighty nine chain, to a Stake, in a line of Martin's, thence with the same, South sixty five East, thirty seven chain to the Beginning. Surveyed the 22nd of May 1826. With the appurtenances, to have and to hold the said TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND with its appurtenances, to the said William H. Salmons and his heirs forever. In Witness whereof, William Carroll Governor of the State of Tennessee; hath hereunto set his hand and caused the GREAT SEAL of the State to be affixed; at Nashville on the 5th day of October in the YEAR OF OUR LORD one thousand eight hundred and twenty Five and of the AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE the the fifty first ----- By the Governor: Wm Carroll Daniel Graham Secretary Note: The lettering in Italics was part of the form, and the bold was written in.
Charlotte
Curlee Ramsey
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