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:<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|disp=FHL film 2055421 Item 2; book 976.8 R2m}}</blockquote> | :<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|disp=FHL film 2055421 Item 2; book 976.8 R2m}}</blockquote> | ||
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From "[http://www.tn.gov/tsla/history/guides/guide10.htm Early North Carolina/Tennessee Land Grants @ the Tennessee State Library and Archives]": | |||
:<blockquote>In 1806, when Tennessee received the right to issue land grants, they discovered they had no records. A large North Carolina land fraud had caused the original records to be subpoenaed to North Carolina. Tennessee agents had to go to North Carolina and copy Tennessee records from the North Carolina books, which included both North Carolina and Tennessee grants. They also had to copy the entry and survey books. These records are in the Tennessee State Library & Archives, called Record Group 50, and are microfilmed.</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"]. | ||
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*McNamara, Billie R. ''Hawkins County, Tennessee Land Grant Books 1 and 2, 1787-1819''. Knoxville, Tenn.: B.R. McNamara, 1996. {{FHL|744933|item|disp=FHL film 2055287 Item 6; book 976.895 R29m}}. [http://tngenealogy.net/books/ Available from the author]. | *McNamara, Billie R. ''Hawkins County, Tennessee Land Grant Books 1 and 2, 1787-1819''. Knoxville, Tenn.: B.R. McNamara, 1996. {{FHL|744933|item|disp=FHL film 2055287 Item 6; book 976.895 R29m}}. [http://tngenealogy.net/books/ Available from the author]. | ||
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=== North Carolina Revolutionary War Warrants === | === North Carolina Revolutionary War Warrants === | ||