Tennessee Land Warrants Greene and Sullivan Counties Tennessee and Surveyor’s Rights, Preemption Claims, Evans’ Battalion Guard Rights, etc.

By: Dr. Albert Bruce Pruitt, Pub. 1999, reprinted 2026, 772 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-0-94499-269-2. This book contains 5,188 entries of a variety of warrants issued by North Carolina for lands in Tennessee. The main bulk are warrants for land in Greene and Sullivan Counties. But the author has included numerous others such as: warrants issued by Burke and Wilkes Counties that were used to obtain grants in Tennessee; a few warrants for Hawkins County; a 100 plus Revolutionary War warrants; warrants issued due to Surveyor’s rights, preemption claims, service in Thomas Evan’s Battalion (Cumberland Battalion), commissioners or guard rights, and some military warrants in various counties such as: Washington, Greene, Sullivan, Hawkins, Jefferson, Knox, Maury, Eastern District, Middle District, Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner, Tennessee and No Name Counties. The Index mentions approximately 8,800 persons.