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Jacob Brown Grant Deeds
The Jacob Brown Grant Deeds, also known more simply as the Nolichucky Grants, were transactions for the sale of land by the Cherokee Nation to Jacob Brown. The transaction occurred at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River on March 25, 1775. The Jacob Brown grants were for two large tracts along the Nolichucky River some of which had been previously leased from the Cherokee.
The grants are located along the Nolichucky River in what is now East Tennessee. The land is adjacent to the Charles Roberson or Watauga Grant made by the Cherokee a few days earlier.
The Nolichucky Grants were two of five property transactions made near present-day Elizabethton, Tennessee at the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River, collectively known as The Watauga Treaties. The Path Grant Deed was for lands in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia needed by Richard Henderson & Co to permit free passage into Kentucky and the property of the Great Grant Deed. That transaction was concluded a few days earlier on March 17, 1775. The Charles Roberson Grant Deed and two Jacob Brown Grant Deeds clarified ownership of existing settlements.
Among the first agreements between Native Americans and the European settlers were the Watauga Treaties, which resulted in the Jacob Brown Deeds. The Watauga treaties were the beginning of the American westward expansion. Jacob Brown was a visionary who saw that providing land to colonial settlers would enable them to escape the confines of the British Crown.
It is noted on the Tennessee Historical Marker in Greene County that in 1771 Jacob Brown came to the Nolichucky River and set up tents on the northern bank. From this location he conducted trade with the Cherokee. In 1772 he leased a tract of ground on the Nolichucky from the Cherokee. The consideration was said to be a horse load of goods. The exact boundaries of the lease are not known.
The lands on the Nolichucky were the fertile alluvial soil drained by the creeks flowing from the mountains. The valleys provided abundant game.
Although Jacob Brown was in fact one of the thirteen original commissioners of the Watauga Association it was because of the large lease that his properties were not included in the Charles Robertson Watauga Grant negotiated on March 19, 1775 at Sycamore Shoals. Brown had previously made a deed of conveyance to parts of the leased land to others, including one Richard Trivillian.
The lease is a term of legal art where by one party is granted the use of the property of another. The lease is a document stating the description of the property and the consideration paid. There is no permanent record of the Jacob Brown lease. Since there was no government through which there could be judicial enforcement, the concept is murky. Being a matter of law the formality of the term lease was not fully comprehended by the Cherokee but for the price paid they agreed not to bother Jacob Brown or those others settled upon the lands in question. The Cherokee in question did not have villages within roughly ninety five miles. However, they held aboriginal title and claimed the lands for hunting.
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Jacob Brown Grant Deeds
The Jacob Brown Grant Deeds, also known more simply as the Nolichucky Grants, were transactions for the sale of land by the Cherokee Nation to Jacob Brown. The transaction occurred at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River on March 25, 1775. The Jacob Brown grants were for two large tracts along the Nolichucky River some of which had been previously leased from the Cherokee.
The grants are located along the Nolichucky River in what is now East Tennessee. The land is adjacent to the Charles Roberson or Watauga Grant made by the Cherokee a few days earlier.
The Nolichucky Grants were two of five property transactions made near present-day Elizabethton, Tennessee at the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River, collectively known as The Watauga Treaties. The Path Grant Deed was for lands in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia needed by Richard Henderson & Co to permit free passage into Kentucky and the property of the Great Grant Deed. That transaction was concluded a few days earlier on March 17, 1775. The Charles Roberson Grant Deed and two Jacob Brown Grant Deeds clarified ownership of existing settlements.
Among the first agreements between Native Americans and the European settlers were the Watauga Treaties, which resulted in the Jacob Brown Deeds. The Watauga treaties were the beginning of the American westward expansion. Jacob Brown was a visionary who saw that providing land to colonial settlers would enable them to escape the confines of the British Crown.
It is noted on the Tennessee Historical Marker in Greene County that in 1771 Jacob Brown came to the Nolichucky River and set up tents on the northern bank. From this location he conducted trade with the Cherokee. In 1772 he leased a tract of ground on the Nolichucky from the Cherokee. The consideration was said to be a horse load of goods. The exact boundaries of the lease are not known.
The lands on the Nolichucky were the fertile alluvial soil drained by the creeks flowing from the mountains. The valleys provided abundant game.
Although Jacob Brown was in fact one of the thirteen original commissioners of the Watauga Association it was because of the large lease that his properties were not included in the Charles Robertson Watauga Grant negotiated on March 19, 1775 at Sycamore Shoals. Brown had previously made a deed of conveyance to parts of the leased land to others, including one Richard Trivillian.
The lease is a term of legal art where by one party is granted the use of the property of another. The lease is a document stating the description of the property and the consideration paid. There is no permanent record of the Jacob Brown lease. Since there was no government through which there could be judicial enforcement, the concept is murky. Being a matter of law the formality of the term lease was not fully comprehended by the Cherokee but for the price paid they agreed not to bother Jacob Brown or those others settled upon the lands in question. The Cherokee in question did not have villages within roughly ninety five miles. However, they held aboriginal title and claimed the lands for hunting.