Thus I will begin with some William HALL records! Our records begin with a mysterious Nathan HALL, a drummer in the NC Continental Line, who was granted land in Smith County, Tennessee. Who is he? In what NC county did he live? How is he connected to William HALL, if at all?
North Carolina
Archives website – MAR catalog entry.
Details for File No. 1233, William SANDERS, Assignee of Heirs of Nathan
HALL.
3 items in folder
12.14.18.1097. Call number S.108.386,
location 581 – 186. Warrant originally
issued to heirs of Nathan HALL for his service as a drummer in the continental
line. Grant # 2506, issued 12 November
1795, Warrant # 1623. Entered 21 September 1787, Book 89, page
422. 1000 acres.
On a map in the Cumberland
Pioneer Settlers book by Jack MASTERS and Bill PURYEAR, this land was
located near another grant of 2560 acres to William SANDERS and adjacent to
Tilman DIXON grant. This is currently in
Smith Co. TN but was Sumner Co. at that time.
17 Dec 1796
General
TN Land Grants, Book B, page 617, grant #1634 to William HALL
Date:
11 Sep 1809
For
military service performed by Cornelius DEAN to the State of North
Carolina
warrant #4354 dated 17 Dec 1796 and entered 6 Feb 1797 by 6488.
State
of TN grants to Lewis MCFARLIN, assignee of the said Cornelius DEAN,
274
acres lying in Smith County (formerly Sumner) in the First District on the
North
side of Cumberland river and on a south branch of Dry Creek, beginning
at a
buck north west corner of Colonel MURFREE’s survey of 1000 acres on the
east
boundary line of Captain William SANDER’s service right of 2560 acres
running
south 78 poles to a poplar corner of said SANDER’s survey thence
west
16 poles to a dogwood sapling two poplars then south 113 poles to a
hackberry
then east 236 poles to a lynn, thence north 191 poles to an elm on the
south
boundary of said MURFREE’s line thence west 220 poles to the beginning.
Surveyed
18 May 1808.
John
SEVIER, Governor
By
R. HOUSTON, Secretary
Recorded
20 Dec 1809
Warrant:
The
Honourable James GLASGOW, Esquire, Secretary of State, to Colonel
Martin
ARMSTRONG, Greeting. Your are hereby
required to lay off and survey
for
Cornelius DEAN, a Private, in the line of this state two hundred and seventy
four
acres of land, within the limits of the lands reserved by law for the officers
and
soldiers of the continental line of this state; observing the directions of the
acts
of Assemby in such case made and provided.
Two just and fair plans, with
a
certificate to each annexed, you are to transmit to my office within the time
limited
by law. Given under my hand, at Raleigh,
the 17th of December 1796.
J.
GLASGOW
I do
assign the within warrant to William HALL for value received as witness
my hand Cornelius
DEAN
Test:
Abr. SWAGERTY
Jesse
SHARP
Jos.
MARCOM
No.
Carolina, Wake County, personally appeared Abraham SWAGERTY, Jesse
SHARP,
and Joseph MARCOM before me & made oath that they saw Cornelius
DEAN
sign the within transfer as his act & deed.
Dec.
30th, 1796 Nathl.
JONES, J. P.
No.
4354
Cornelius
DEAN
274
Acres
Good
Co
Lewis
MCFARLAND
The
Warrantee
Lewis
MCFARLAND, Claimant
Cornelius
DEAN ____(?)
202
Brall(?)
A.B. PRUITT, Tennessee Land Entries, Military Bounty
Land, Martin Armstrong’s Office, Part 3, Warrants first series (#1 – 2500),
Oct. 1783 – Sept. 1785, (1996), page 18
210. warrant 1623;
location 3347; Sept. 21, 1787 William SANDERS, assignee of Nathan HALL, heir of
Nath. HALL, 1000 ac on N side of Cumberland R; border; joins his own service
right on upper side and runs up the river; James SANDERS [numbers differ] as above [signed] J.
WILIS.
A.B. PRUITT, Tennessee Land Entries, Military Bounty
Land, Martin Armstrong’s Office, Part 1, Location Book (#3138 – 4839), (1996),
page 494.
5301. Mar. 12,
1785 warrant 1622 [no names] heirs of Drummer Nathan HALL 1,000 ac delivered to
Jno. MARSHALL; 84 months; flie #49; grant to Wm. SANDERS; [for grant see file
#1233 in Sumner Co.; MARS 12.14.18. 1117; warrant not mentioned in Glasgow land
fraud].
Lands, Grants, Warrants, Plats, Etc., Sumner County,
#1145 – 1396, Microfilm 1177, page 1233, Reel 37. Tennessee State Library and Archives.
No. 1233 – County – Sumner
Name – SANDERS, William
Assignee
Acres 1000
Grant 2506
Issued 12 Nov. 1795
Entry 1623
Entered 2 Sept. 1787
Book No. 89, page 422
Location beg two beech trees.
Remarks; heirs Nathan HALL.
No.
1623
State of N. Carolina
The Hon. James GLASGOW, Esquire. Secretary of State.
To col. Martin ARMSTRONG, Greeting.
You are hereby requested to lay off land ___ for the
heirs of Nathan HALL, a drummer , decd in the line of the State on thousand
acres of land issued the ??? to the land reserved by Law for the Officers and
Soldiers of the Continental Line of this state.
Observing the conditions of the Act of Assembly in such
cases made and provided for running out Lands two just and fair for laws
thereof with a certificate ____ annexed___ to transmit to my office within the
time permitted by law.
Given
under my Hand at Fairfield the 12th day of March 1785.
GLASGOW
A page shows plat including names of Thomas KILGORE and
William HODER__(?), Sworn Chain.
North Carolina Sumner County – Octobr. 6th,
1787
Agreeable to the enclosed warrant No. 1623 the entry
dated September 21st, 1787 I have surveyed for William SANDERS,
assignee of Nathan HALL, Junr., Heir of Nathan HALL one thousand acres of land
in Sumner Co. and bounded as follows beginning at two beech trees on the North
bank of Cumberland River and Corner to his own ___ rite of twenty five hundred
and sixty acres and thence east two hundred poles with said line to a beech
thence south five hundred and sixty five poles to a stake west to the river
thence with his own the River with its several Meanders to the Beginning.
Surveyed
by Jas. SANDERS. D. S.
Martin ARMSTRONG, Senr.
I, Nathan HALL, a Hear (sic) of Nathan HALL, Senr., Do
hereby acknowledge to have recd of Will SANDERS the sum of ten pounds for my
right of his the the said Nathan HALL’s bounty Lands as a Continental Soldier
in the North Carolina Line and I do hear (sic) by transfare(sic) all my right
and title for said Land to the said Will SANDERS his hears (sic) and ___(?)
forever of witness my hand and seal this second day of Decr. One thousand seven
hundred eighty four.
Nathan
(X) HALL
Test
William (X) HALL
ABSTRACT
of the ARMY ACCOUNTS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA LINE - settled by the commissioners
at Halifax from the 1st September, 1784, to the 1st Feby, 1785 and at Warrenton
in the year 1786, designating by whom the claims were receipted for
respectively.
No. Names and Rank By Whom Received Remarks
669 John Harris William Sanders
684 John Hunt do
686 David Hatches do
691 Solomon Hunter do
693 Nathan Hall, Dr. do
725 James Hall do
732 Benjamin Hester do
2541 Miles Halfred William Sanders
2552 Joshua Hall do
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