Land Grant signed by the Governor William Carroll February 15, 1833 and filed in Clerks Office - Hawkins County - August 1835

The fragments were in the possession of the Begley family.  Claude Begley, Sr. made a copy for Mildred Horton Street not long before he died.

 
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Following are some keys for researching earlier land grants and records if by chance Reuben Payne may have recorded land:

LAND GRANTS IN TENNESSEE BY NORTH CAROLINA

RECORDS RELATING TO TENNESSEE IN THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE ARCHIVES

Hawkins County (Formed in 1787 from Sullivan County)
Clerk’s Bonds, 1787 [T&C, Oaths, 28]
Register’s Bonds, 1787-1789 [T&C, Oaths, 43]
Sheriff’s Bonds, 1787-1788 [T&C, Oaths, 9]
Deeds, 1788-1800 [C.110.40001]
Index to Deeds, 1780-1861 [C.110.48351]
Land Surveys, 1787 (2 only) (Folder title) [SS XVI.10]
Suspended Land Grants, Western Counties (now Tennessee), 1787-1799 [SS XII.248]
Wills, 1797-1886 [C.110.80001]
List of Militia Officers, 1788, n.d. [GO 147]
List of Justices of the Peace, 1788, 1789, n.d. [GO 147]