JEFFERSON COUNTY, TN - Deeds - Abraham Woodward, North Carolina Land Grant
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Abraham Woodward Grant Registered April 14, 1794

State of North Carolina No. 360
to all whom these presents shall come Greeting
Know ye that we for and in consideration of the sum of Fifty Shillings for 
every hundred acres of land hereby granted paid into our treasury by Abraham 
Woodward have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto 
the said Abraham Woodward a tract of land containing fifty acres lying and 
being in our County of Hawkins on the south side of holston river near lost 
Creek joining said Woodwards land on the north and William Brazeltons on the 
west. Beginning at a hickory said Woodwards corner and running along said 
Brazeltons line south seventy degrees west four poles to a black oak then due 
south eighty poles to a pine thence north seventy east one hundred poles to a 
stake betwixt a pine and post oak then due north eighty poles to a stake on 
said Woodwards line then along to the beginning as by the plat hereunto 
annexed doth appear together with all woods, water, mines, minerals, 
hereditaments and appurtenances to the said land belonging to hold to the said 
Abraham Woodward heirs and assigns forever, yielding and paying to us such 
sums of money yearly or otherwise as our general assembly from time to time 
may direct provided always that the said Abraham Woodward shall cause this 
grant to be registered in the registers office of our said County of Hawkins 
within twelve months from the date hereof, otherwise the same shall be void 
and of no effect, in testimony, whereof, we have caused these our letters to 
be made, patent, and our great seal to be hereunto affixed. Witness Richard 
Dobbs Spaight Esquire, our governor, captain, general, and commander in chief 
at Newburn the 27th day of July in the Eighteenth year of our independance, 
and in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, by 
his excellencys command. Richard Dobbs Spaight, James Glasgow Secretary.

(Note: this land was located in the future state of Tennessee and was 
ultimately sold by Abraham's son to become part of the town of New Market in 
Jefferson County, Tennessee.)