Tennessee Land and Property: Difference between revisions

From the "Foreword" to ''Tennessee Land:&nbsp;Its Early History and Laws'':<br>  

<blockquote>Tennessee is considered a "metes and bounds" state. However, a large portion of it was also set apart in townships and ranges as in public-land states. Tennessee litigated its boundaries with neighboring states until the mid-19th Century. North Carolina and Virginia both claimed portions of Tennessee prior to its statehood. Its eastern lands made up the largest part of the short-lived State of Franklin. Tennessee had to honor North Carolina's unresolved land grants for many years following statehood, and Tennessee was unable to grant its own lands for the first ten years of its existence. </blockquote><blockquote>Tennessee land (primarily grants)&nbsp;was the basis of the worst land fraud scheme in the history of the United States.</blockquote><blockquote>[McNamara, Billie R. (1996). [http://tngenealogy.net/books/ Available from the author].]</blockquote>  

Frederick Smoot's article and map entitled "Tennessee's Early Surveyors' Districts and District Boundary Documentation 1806-1836" is found [http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/survdist.htm here].

*North Carolina grants (beginning 1777). These grants were issued for the counties of Davidson, Green, Hawkins, Sullivan, Sumner, Tennessee, Washington, and the Eastern, Middle, and West Districts for service in the Revolutionary War.