Christopher Acklin To John Wilkes Kittera

Lincoln County, Kentucky

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17 November 1795

Christopher Acklin of Washington County, Virginia, by Samuel Acklin, his attorney

To

John Wilkes Kittera of Borough of Lancaster, Pennsylvania

5 shillings current money of the State of Pennsylvania

..six several tracts of land in Lincoln County, Kentucky...

Beginning on the south side of a gully on the west side of Crank's Creek...on the bank of Cumberland River...one thousand acres of land...Prukel's [Puckett's?] Creek...3,300 acres of land

Witnesses: Ebenezer Branham, John Muser, Urban Ewing, John McKinney, John Ewing

Notarized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Mayor Matthew Clarkson

1784 Map Of Lincoln County, Kentucky (LOC) Including The Cumberland River

"The John Latham survey was assigned to Christopher Acklin, and the following is the general description of the tract of land: "Lying and being in the county of Lincoln on the south side of Cumberland river and on both sides of Crank's creek, including Cathrion's improvement, and bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning on the south side of a gully on the west side of the creek at a poplar and 2 birches."

"Therefore the evidence all seems to negative the contention that the Latham 1,000 acre survey was laid upon lands on Puckett's creek."

"Bearing in mind that the Latham 1,000 acre survey recited that it covered lands lying on the south side of Cumberland river on both sides of Crank's creek, we find that survey was made March 27, 1788. We find that on March 28, 1788, the following day, the same surveyor surveyed for the same John Latham two surveys, one for 200 acres and one for 300 acres; and on the next day, March 29, 1788, the same surveyor surveyed for the same John Latham a 250 acre survey, all three of which *Page 82 adjoin each other and all of which recite that they lie on Puckett's creek in Lincoln county, Kentucky. It thus becomes apparent that there were two creeks at that early day, one known as "Crank's creek" and the other known as "Puckett's creek." [Source]

Is Crank's Creek located in what is now Harlan County, Kentucky?  Harlan was partially created from Knox County and Knox was created from Lincoln County, Kentucky.