SULLIVAN COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - State of North Carolina to Samuel & 
			      Joseph McCorkell
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Sullivan Co., TN, DB 6, p. 25:  State of North Carolina to Samuel & Joseph McCorkell
Transcribed by Robert W. Keyes
Jan 9, 2005
Source: FHL film# 972707

State of North Carolina No. 1056
To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting  
Know ye that we for and in Consideration of the sum 
of fifty shillings for every hundred Acres hereby Granted 
paid into our treasury by Samuel and Joseph McKorkell 
have given and Granted and by these presents do give and 
grant unto the said Samuel and Joseph McCorkell a tract 
of land containing five hundred and twenty acres 
Lying and being in our county of washington on the south 
side of Holston river at a place known by the name of 
Choats Ford beginning at a Beach and maple on the south 
bank of said River and thence south one Hundred and 
sixty poles to a white oak on Benjamin Webbs line thence 
north Eighty East on said Webbs line Three Hundred and 
forty poles to a white oak thence North one Hundred and 
seventy poles to a stake on the Bank of River near the 
lower end of an Island and thence down the meanders of the 
river to the Begining as by the Plat hereunto annexed doth 
appear together with all woods waters mines minerals Heredit
aments and Appurtenances to the said land belonging 
or appertaining to Hold to the said Samuel & Joseph McCorkill 
his heirs or assigns forever yeilding 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 Samuel and 
Joseph McCorkill shall cause this grant to be Registered in 
the Registers Office of our said County of Washington 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 Alexander Martin Esquire, our Governor 
Captain general and Commander in Chief at Newburn the 
27th Day of Nov'm in the 19th year of the Independence 
and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety 
two
By his Execlly,s Com'd                     Alex. Martin
J Glasgow Secretary
June 10th 1809

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