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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Tennessee Company Land Grant, 1795 January 24

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

Colletion consists of an original document confirming the sale of land (four million acres, much of which already had Cherokee and Creek Indian inhabitants) from the state of Georgia to the Tennessee Company, owned by Zachariah Cox and Matthias Maber. The item was signed on January 24, 1795. It specifies the amount of land and its boundaries, marking beginning and ending areas with waterways like Bear Creek and the Tennessee River.

Dates: 1795 January 24