Transcribed from Deed Book A, pages 196 and 197

The State of Tennessee Ack 3469

To all whom these presents shall come greeting
Know ye that in consideration of military service performed by William Skinner to the State of North Carolina, warrant No 149 dated the 30th day of November 1807 and entered on the 12th day of May 1808 by A# 1700 there to granted by the said State of Tennessee unto Jonathan Falkner assignee of the heirs of the said William Skinner a certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred acres, post of said Warrant, lying in Stewart County in the forth district on Little Richland Creek of Tennessee River beginning at a Spanish Oak and Ash in the fork of branch marked “J” running east one hundred & seventy nine poles to a White Oak, thence south eighty nine poles and one half poles to a hickory, thence north eighty nine and one half poles to the Beginning, surveyed the 16th day of July 1808 by Dawdey Hason DS with the hereditaments & appurtenances –
To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with it appurtenances, to the said Jonathan Falkner & his heirs forever –
In witness whereof, Willie Blount Governor of the State of Tennessee hath hereunto set his hands & caused the great seal of the State to be affixed at Knoxville on the second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred & eleven, & of the Independence of the United States the thirty sixth
By the Governor, Willie Blount
W Grey Blount, Secretary