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Subject: [TNDEKALB] Locating Ancestors Land
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:39:26 EDT


Is there a way to find out where my ancestors land was and who lives on the
land now? The reason I ask is because I cannot seem to find out where they ar
e buried so I'm thinking that it must have been a private cemetery located on
their land.

I have a copy of the land grant but it doesn't give the exact location of
the plot of land.

The grant was for land in Smith County in the area that became Dekalb
County. It is suppose to be around the Doweltown Area on Dry Creek.

Thank Yon

Ron in New York State

THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, NO. 10251
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:

KNOW YE, That by Order of part? of Certificate NO. 819 noted this 30TH day
of December 1814 ___?__ by the Commissioner of Mid Tennessee to Benjamin
McCullach and entered on the 18th day of February 1815 by No. 14536.

There is granted by the said State of Tennessee unto James Standford as
given of the said Benjamin McCullach

A certain tract or Parcel of Land containing Eleven Acres by survey
bearing? date this 20th day of July 1816 lying in Smith County in the first
district on Hays? Branch of Dry Creek of Smiths Fork and bounded as follows (to
West) Beginning on a hickory on Mathew Hunts East boundarys line turning thence
East thirty two poles to a white oak and ____?_____ Just by Baking Mill Path
thence South fifty five poles to a ______?______ and large ash thence West
thirty two poles to _____?_____ thence North fifty five poles to a ___?____
Hunts Corner to the beginning.

With the hereditaments and appurtenances. To have and to hold the said tract
or parcel of Land, with appurtenances, to the said James Standford and his
heirs forever. In witness whereof, Joseph McMinn Governor of the State of
Tennessee, hath hereunto set his hand, and caused the great seal of the State to
be affixed, at Knoxville on the twenty ninth day of June in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seventeen and of Independence of the
United States, the Forty First.

BY THE GOVERNOR, Jos McMinn

Wm. Alexander SECRETARY




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