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From: Linda Bjorklund <>
Subject: RE: [RHEA-L] John Rhea (Rea) Land Grant
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:08:05 -0700


thank you Mack for this information. I'll be sending it over to my cousin,
who is actually the Rhea researcher for this family. I appreciate you
sending this to me. thanks again.

Linda

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From:Mack Rhea [SMTP:]
Sent:Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:53 AM
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Subject:[RHEA-L] John Rhea (Rea) Land Grant

>From my records:

"P-216. Land Grant. The State of Tennessee No. 6795.To all to
whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye that by virtue of part
of certificate No. 95 dated the 9th day of July, 1807 obtained from the
Board of Commissioners of West Tennessee by Martin Armstrong and entered an
June 3, 1808 by No. 500 there is granted by the said State of Tennessee
unto John Rea assignee of the said Martin Armstrong a certain tract or
parcel of land containing one hundred acres in Warren County in the third
district on the raters of Rocky River. Beginning at a black walnut tree
marked W. 1-1. standing about forty poles northeast of the cabbin that
Robert Tidwell formerly lived in near a blacksmiths shop thence east one
hundred and sixty poles to a white oak on the side of a mountain thence
north &long the side of said mountain to a scalybark hickory on the side of
the mountain thence west one hundred and sixty poles to a black gum
standing in a low place theme south one hundred poles to the beginning.
Surveyed June 13, 1809 by John A. Wilson D. S!
. Title guaranteed.In witness whereof Willie Blount Governor of the State
of Tennessee hath hereunto set his hand and caused the great seal of the
state to be affixed at Nashville an April 1, 1815 and of the Independence
of the United States the Thirty-Ninth.

Willie Blount
(Seal)
W. G. Blount, Secretary.

John Rea is entitled to the within mentioned tract of land.
D. McGavock, Register of West Tennessee.


Recorded in the Registers Office of West Tennessee June 9. 1815.
D. McGavock Register

Registered in Warren County April 20, 1616."




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