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| View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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| View Entry | 1832 | Commissioners of the town of Monroe in Overton County v George Gordon et al | Fentress | Land and Title Dispute |
This case relates to land grant #300 in the name of John Sevier for 32,000 acres dated 1795 in the Middle Tennessee District. Some of the land was now a part of Overton and Fentress Counties. The land was on the Cumberland River with a plat to subdivide. Sevier sold the land to Gordon and his descendants. Gordon donated the land to the Commissioners of the and town of Monroe. George W. Sevier and William Chilton were to divide the land. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 372 | 120 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1832 | Heirs of John White v. Daniel Cherry | Carroll | Land |
Land warrant #3809 is mentioned in this case. It deals with 3840 acres of land in Carroll County. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 372 | 49 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1832 | John Newnan v. Jenkins Whiteside, et al. | Maury | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional Defendants: Redmond Barry, E. Hall, Alfred Balch, Oliver B. Hayes, Roger Sappington, Nathan Ewing. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 3 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1832 | John Hammons, et al. v. Hopkins & Lane | Warren | Land, Contract Dispute |
Other plaintiffs: Words[illeg.] Hammons, Nancy Hammons, Elizabeth Hammons, Leroy Hammons, Jr., Leroy Hammons, Sr. Case mentions mortgage taken out on 2 "negroes." |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: Oversize 1 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1832 | James Rodgers v. James Ramsey et al | Knox | Land and Title Dispute |
Add. Defendants: William B. A. Ramsey, Eliza Ramsey Scott, James Scott, John Ramsey, Francis A. Ramsey, David Parker. |
East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 729 | 59 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1832 | Thomas L. Gray v. Tripp Farris | Haywood | Land and Title Dispute | Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 376 | 38 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1832 | Thomas Eastland et al. v. Anthony Dibrell | White | Land, Sale of |
Additional Palintiffs: Charles Cooper, Charles S. Barthe, John Herbert, and George Dawson. Also see MT 196 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 191 | 0 | Order A Copy |