OBION COUNTY, TN - COURT RECORDS - Court of Pleas & Quarter

 				   July Term, 1834, p. 96-98



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Summary:  Entries in the Court of Pleas & Quarter of Obion County, 

Tennessee, designating the overseer for Mills Point and Totten Roads show 

land of Seth Curlin lying to west of the road near the intersection of 

Totten Road.  The description indicates that Seth Curlin's land was located 

between the mouth of Harris Fork and the Obion River.  Which Seth Curlin 

was this - brother of Thomas Curlin or son of same Thomas and Sophia 

Curlin??





OBION COUNTY, TN

COURT OF PLEAS & QUARTER SESSIONS

JULY TERM, 1834, p. 96-98

TRANSCRIBED BY PATSY HARTMAN, JUNE 1997 

DOWNLOADED FROM JANE POWELL'S HOMEPAGE

BY JAMES W. CURLIN, JUNE 19, 1997





Ordered by the Court that George W. Maxwell be appointed overseer on the 

Mills Point Road from the County line near Tottens Wells to the four mile 

post (to wit) 



Beginning at said four mile Tree and said road running thence North to the 

State line to Issac Reeves thence South and by G. B. Tottens so as to 

include Abram Herring, William Harpers (p-97) John Doxey and one half of 

said Tottens lands and from thence with the Weakley County line to the 

North fork of Obion River thence down said River to the North of Harris 

fork and from thence Northwardly to the North corner of the widow Birds 

plantation to the road thence down said road to the line of Judge -- 1000 

acre survey thence northward to said 4 mile tree on the Mills Point road so 

as to leave James B. Holomons to the West including the following lands (to 

wit) William B. Rolls, John Carmac, Horace Allen, Ruben Walker, Seth 

Curlen, Lewis Cook Allen Pryor, Grasty Munsrield, James N. Cullen, Albert 

Hornsby, John Hornsby, with Betty, Mark Hubbs and brother, John Huzzy, John 

Jones, William R. Fisher, Elizah Hay & Brothers William, Edward T. 

Brockwell, William A. Maxwell, Daniel Dunn, Abraham Herring and hands, 

William Harper, John S. Doxey and Lamas Stephen Beggs, Will Andrews, and 

one half of B. Tottens lands as aforesaid and all other lands in said 

Bounds and that he make the same a first class road and do his duty thereon 

for one year.





On motion it was ordered by the Court that Porter A. Davis be appointed 

overseer on the Totten Road from the fork of Hoosier Creek to where it 

intersects the Mills Point Road near Clay Creek in the room of John Mehan 

removed and that all the hands in the following bounds works under him (to 

wit) 



Beginning at the North East corner of the widow Byrds plantation running 

thence Southwardly to the mouth of Harris fork passing west of Seth Curlin 

thence down the north fork of Obion River to the mouth of Grover Creek and 

from thence a Northward course to the (p-98) to the said Tottens Road at 

the place where it crosses the East fork of Hoosiers and thence with said 

road to the beginning so as to include all the lands on the place where 

Samuel Wells now lives, say John W. Byrd, John Tart, Samuel Davies, Joseph 

Davies, A. S. Bozzy, Isham Berner, Jesse Cooke, Sion Hill, Jefferson Cook 

and that he do his duty for one year and make it a 2nd class road.