Memucan Hunt Howard Gains Land from Lauderdale, TN
december 15, 1838
This document is one of four land grants from the Lauderdale County of Tennessee to Memucan Hunt Howard. This grant is warrant number 4078. Memucan received this land grant on December 15th 1838. He received 200 acres of land from the Tennessee government.
This document was used to bolster evidence that Memucan substantial amounts of land grants from the state as a reward for his career as a surveyor. This grant in particular from Lauderdale showed that Memucan Hunt Howard gradually owned a notable percentage of the land mass in Tennessee counties. Including this land grant, Howard owned at different times, 657 acres in Lauderdale, County.
This document was used to bolster evidence that Memucan substantial amounts of land grants from the state as a reward for his career as a surveyor. This grant in particular from Lauderdale showed that Memucan Hunt Howard gradually owned a notable percentage of the land mass in Tennessee counties. Including this land grant, Howard owned at different times, 657 acres in Lauderdale, County.
citation
Ancestry.com. North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931 [database on-line]. pp 24. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.