ROBERTSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE - DEED - Land Grant to Jacob Grimes 7 July 1816 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Virginia Crilley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000642 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ ROBERTSON COUNTY, Tennessee Land Grant #9467 JACOB GRIMES Recorded January 10th 1817 Book M pg 719 Know ye that by virtue of part of certificate No 811 dated the 29th day of December 1814 issued by the Commissioner of West Tennessee to Edward Sanders and entered on the 28th day of October 1815 by No 15929. There is granted by the said STATE OF TENNESSEE unto JACOB GRIMES asignees of the said EDWARD SANDERS A certain tract or parcel of land containing fifty acres (50) by survey bearing the date the 29th day of January 1816 lying in Robertson County in the first District on the waters of the Long Branch of Spring Creek of Syckamore and bounded as follows to wit: Beginning at poplar ______, south east corner Thence North one hundred and twenty seven poles to a hickory Thence west sixty three poles to a dogwood, Thence South one hundres and twenty seven poles to a white oak Thence east sixty three poles to the beginning. With the hereditaments and appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said JACOB GRIMES and his heirs forever. In witness thereof Joseph _______ 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 seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen and of the Independence of the United States, the forty first. By the Governor, Jos McMinn (difficult to read?) Wm Alexander, Secretary