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Subject: Peter Pyatte's Tennessee land
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:19:03 +0000

Found on microfilm at the East Tennessee Historical Society in Knoxville TN last spring:


<<North Carolina Grants, Book C-3, p 21

Peter Pyatte, State of No Carolina, No 1524

To all whom these presents shall come, Greeting. Know ye that we pursuant to an Act of our Genl Assembly intitled [sic] An Act for the Relief of the Officers and Soldiers in the contl line, and in consideration of the signal(?) bravery and perservering zeal of Peter Hadsock a private in the said line, have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto Peter Pyatte, assignee of said Hadsock, a tract of land containing six hundred and forty acres lying and being in our county of Tennessee on the South Side of Cumberland above Armstrong's Survey on Yellow Creek, Beginning at a Red oak, sd Armstrong's South East corner Running East with a line three hundred and twenty poles to a Dogwood Corner South one hundred and Sixty poles to a hickory East one hundred and Sixty poles to a stake then North three hundred and twenty poles to a stake West four hundreed and Eighty poles to Armstrong's line South one hundred and sixty poles to the Beginning. To hold to the Pet!
er Pyatte, hs heirs and assigns forever, which land was surveyed for the sd Pyatte Feb 15, 1792 by Robert Nelson D[eputy surveryor] consequence of a Military warrant No 449 dated Feb 7, 1792 the grant Signed Alexander Martin, Dated Apl 10, 1792 counter Signed J(?) Glasgow, Secy >>

A shorter version of the same grant is given in Book C-3, page 207.

Yellow Creek meets the Cumberland in present day Montgomery Co TN, near the Stewart Co TN line.

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Laverne Ingram Piatt
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