Friday, December 6, 2013

Ransom S. Rice In The Entry Book


Ransom Rice's property (100 acres) in Franklin County, Tennessee, mapped out here.

From the "Register's Office, Land Entry Book" Vol 1, Apr 1824-May 1831:
No 1470
$1.00
100 acres
Entry Book #1, Page 193
Ransom S. Rice enters one hundred acres of land in Franklin County
Beginning on the west corner of a shoot tract on Rock Creek thence running
east thence south thence west thence north to the beginning.
December 26, 1829
Ransom S. Rice, Locator

 Entry Book #2, Page #191
No. 2529
50 acres

Ransom S. Rice enters fifty acres of land in Franklin County, on Rock Creek, running in an oblong square so as not to interfere with older claims -- beginning on the south east corner of my 100 acre tract, thence east, thence north, thence west, thence south to the beginning.  Dec. 6, 1838



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