Tennessee Land Entries/Locations – First Surveyor’s District, 1807-1808, and Smith County Land Entries, 1802-1803. Volume #1

By Albert Bruce Pruitt, published 2008, reprinted 2026, 396 pages, index, soft cover, ISBN #978-0-94499-778-6. If a North Carolina Land Warrant wasn’t used before 1804, Tennessee allowed them to be used to obtain a grant from Tennessee from 1806 to about 1822. These warrants will appear with the 1st Surveyors Books. The 1st District covered the counties of: Davidson, Dickson, Jackson, Montgomery, Robertson, Rutherford, Smith, Sumner, White, Williamson and Wilson. There are 9 location books for the 1st Surveyor’s District. Created in 1806, this district followed the same borders as the Military District created in North Carolina in 1782. This book covers 1,829 locations of grants & warrants across the various counties mentioned above. It also includes 154 locations or Land Entries in Smith County, TN. There are no early locations for Smith County prior to 1806. It is difficult to say how many grants may have been issued after 1806 because the number of locations does not match the number in grants to a person and there was no limit on time between the location and the grant.