WILSON COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - State of TN to Hugh and James Eagan 21 Dec 1808 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Schmehl abc@texas.net ************************************************************************ 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. ************************************************************************ Wilson County, Tennessee Deed Book D, p. 194 To all to whom these presents shall come Greetings. Know ye that in consideration of military service performed by Reubin Ransom to the State of North Carolina warrant No. 129 dated the 8th day of December 1797 and entered on the 13th day of May 1808 by N 5 as an occupant claim under the act of 1807 there is granted by the said State of Tennessee unto Hugh Eagan and James Eagan assignees of the said Reubin Ransom a certain tract or parcel of land containing two hundred and twenty eight acres part of said warrant lying in Wilson County in the first District on the Waters of Spencers Creek. Beginning at a double poplar Samuel Gray's North East corner, running thence North West to a gum sapling thence West with David Shelby South boundary line two hundred and twenty three poles to the Beginning to include the improvements Surveyed May 10th 1808, with the heredetaments and appurtenances. To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said Hugh Eagan and James Eagan and their heirs forever. In witness whereof John Sevier 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 twenty first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight and of the Independence of the United States the thirty third. By the Governor John Sevier D. Housten Secretary Hugh Eagan and James Eagan are entitled to the within mentioned tract of land. D. W. Ganock Register of West Tennessee Recorded in the registers office of West Tennessee June 17th 1807 State of Tennessee D.W. Ganock Regt Wilson County Record the state ten in the within grant ... ... be registered John Allcorn Clerk Registered in the office May 30th 1811. Henry Ross Register