SOLOMAN JOHNSON LAND CLAIM
CASE # 188
Claim--A donation of six hundred and forty acres, under the second section of the act.
The claimant presented his claim, together with a surveyor's plot of the land claims, in the words and figures, following, viz.:
To the Commisssioners appointed in pursuance of the act of Congress passed the 3d day of March, 1803, for receiving and adjusting the claims to lands south of Tennessee and east of Pearl river.
Please to take notice, that the following tract of land, situated on the waters of Johnson's creek, in the county of Washington, beginning at a white oak, and running south, fifty degrees west, fifty five chains, to a red oak; thence, south, thirty three degrees west, forty five chains, to a pine; thence north eighty three degrees west, sixty five chains, to a dogwood; thence, north seventy degrees west, eithty two chains, to a pine; thence, with Johnson's creek, to the beginning; containing six hundred and forty acres, having such shape, form and marks, both natural and artificial, as are fully represented in the plot annexed: is claimed by Soloman Johnson, in and by virtue of the second section of said act, as a donation, and is now exhibited to the Register of the Land Office east of Pearl river, to be recorded as directeb by said act. To all which he begs leave to refer, as also to the copy of the plot herewith filed.
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Soloman Johnson
John Brewer, Esquire and Jordan Morgan, were presented as witnesses, and, being duly sworn and interrrogated, they deposed, that they knew that Soloman Johnson inhabited and cultivated the land in question before and on the 3d day of March, 1803, and had continued to inhabit and cultivate thereon ever since; and that said Johnson; was, on said 3d day of March, more thatn twenty one years of age, and a married man.
The Board ordered that the case be postponed for consideration
Monday, July 2, 1804
On due consideration, the Board is of the opinion that this claim is not supported, but that, upon evidence exhibited, the claimant is entitled, under the third section of the act, to a right of pre-emption to one hundered acres of land, to be located as follows, to wit:
Beginning at the northeast corner on the north side of a branch of Johnson's creek, so far from the present dwelling house of the said Johnson, as to leave his said dwelling house in the centre of said tract; thence, due south, thirty one chains seventy five links; thence, due west thirty one chains, seventy five links; thence, due north thirty one chains seventy five links, thence, due east to the place of beginning, containing one hundred acres. And the Board doth order that a certificate be granted to him accordingly.
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