SEVIER COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - Land Grant to James Baker
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The following is the text of a hand written document found in the papers of 
Joseph Baker (b. 2/20/1861 d. 2/16/1944), son of Martin “Bud” Caswell Baker, 
of Sevier County, TN.
 

 No. 1483

The State of Tennessee

 

	To all to whom these presents shall come,

Greeting:

	Know ye, that in pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly passed on 
the twenty-third day of Nov., Eighteen hundred and nine, there is granted by 
the said state of Tennessee unto James Baker a certain tract or parcel of land 
containing two hundred and forty-seven acres and one fourth, and lying in the 
County of Sevier in the District South of the French Broad and Holston, on the 
waters of Flat Creek, there being due and chargeable on said land the sum of 
Two hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents, with the interest 
due there on.

	(Here is given all calls, degrees and distances on the original 
paper.)

	Surveyed June 15, 1807 with its appurtenances, to have and to hold, 
the said tract a parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said James Baker 
and his heirs and assigned forever.

	In witness whereof Willie Blount Governor of said state of Tennessee 
has here unto set his hand, and caused the Great Seal of the state to be 
affixed at Knoxville on the 14th day of June in the year of our Lord One 
thousand Eight hundred and ten and of American Independence the Thirty-fourth.

 

            By the Governor

                        Willie Blount

 

W. G. Blount Secretary

 

            (The above is a true copy of Grant No. 1483 as of record in the 
land office at Knoxville, recorded in Vol. 3 page 607.

 

            Given under my hand Sept. 9, 1891

                                    N. T. Jones Register

                                    Land Officer of East Tenn.