1822 TENNESSEE LAND GRANT SIGNED BY GOVERNOR WILLIAM CARROLL – HUMPHREYS COUNTY, BUFFALO RIVER – TO JOHN MCLEMORE, JOHN DAVIS, AND GEORGE CAMPBELL

1822 TENNESSEE LAND GRANT SIGNED BY GOVERNOR WILLIAM CARROLL – HUMPHREYS COUNTY, BUFFALO RIVER – TO JOHN MCLEMORE, JOHN DAVIS, AND GEORGE CAMPBELL

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This is a partly printed State of Tennessee land grant, No. 17550, signed by Governor William Carroll and issued at Murfreesborough on June 24, 1822, when that town served as the state capital. It is countersigned by Secretary of State Daniel Graham and retains the embossed paper seal of the State at upper left.

The grant conveys 215 acres in the First District of Humphreys County, on the east side of the Buffalo River. The land is divided among three men: 53 3/4 acres to John C. McLemore, 107 1/2 acres to John Davis, and 53 3/4 acres to George W. Campbell as assignee. The grant cites Certificate No. 1254, issued by the Commissioner for West Tennessee on August 26, 1818, and a survey dated September 15, 1818. The handwritten boundary description is a good example of early frontier surveying. It begins "at two beeches on the east bank of said river immediately above the mouth of a branch, and at the lower end of a lagoon." From there it runs along the meanders of the river to "two sugar trees," across "a lake or lagoon," to "a hickory and ironwood," and on to "a white oak in a hollow" before returning to the beginning.

One small detail shows the clerk at work: the printed date reads "the forty seventh" year of American independence, which has been struck through and corrected by hand to "sixth."

The reverse is docketed "No. 17550 / McLemore, Davis & Campbell / 215 acres / Humphreys County." It also bears a signed certification that the grantees are entitled to the tract, and a notation that the grant was recorded in the Register's Office of West Tennessee on December 12, 1822, both signed by the Register.

William Carroll served under Andrew Jackson at New Orleans and later became one of Tennessee's longest-serving governors. John C. McLemore was a prominent Nashville land speculator connected to Jackson by marriage and was later one of the proprietors involved in the founding of Memphis.

Condition: Very good. The grant was folded for filing and shows fold lines with light wear at the folds. The paper has light, even toning and some scattered foxing. There is a round stain at lower left and some brown staining on the reverse near the seal. The embossed seal is intact and clearly visible. All ink, including the Carroll and Graham signatures, is dark and legible.

Dimensions: Approx. 13 in. wide x 16 in. high.    [cm][ph:L]

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