Jefferson County was part of the original land area that North Carolina controlled. West of the mountains the settlers came as early at 1783 when men like Alexander Outlaw, Robert McFarland, James Hill, Wesley White, James Randolph, Thomas Jarnagin, Joseph Copeland, James Hubbard and Robert Gentry made this area home. These land grants are granted by the State of North Carolina by the various governors of that state.
Example from this volume:
Page 55 - JAMES LEA - Grant Registered February 4, 1794 Grant No. 254 State of North Carolina - Grant No. 254 for 500 acres at ten pounds per hundred to James Lea “...lying and being in our County of Hawkins in the Powell Valley near the Virginia line including a small spring and crab orchard below the spring. Etc, etc.
James L. Douthat
1987, paper, 32 pp.
ISBN: 9780788492822
101E-TN0002
