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From the "Foreword" to ''Tennessee Land: Its Early History and Laws'':<br> | From the "Foreword" to ''Tennessee Land: 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. Tennessee land (primarily grants) was the basis of the worst land fraud scheme in the history of the United States."</blockquote><blockquote>(McNamara, Billie R. (1996). Book is [http://tngenealogy.net/books/ available from the author]. | :<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. Tennessee land (primarily grants) was the basis of the worst land fraud scheme in the history of the United States."</blockquote><blockquote>(McNamara, Billie R. (1996). Book is [http://tngenealogy.net/books/ available from the author]. Also available at the Family History Library,{{FHL|656060|item}}, book 976.8 R2m or film 2055421 Item 2.)</blockquote> | ||
<br>Another good article and map to view is Frederick Smoot's [http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/survdist.htm "Tennessee's Early Surveyors' Districts and District Boundary Documentation 1806-1836"] . | <br>Another good article and map to view is Frederick Smoot's [http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/survdist.htm "Tennessee's Early Surveyors' Districts and District Boundary Documentation 1806-1836"] . | ||