Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-05-15

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Indian woman called Nancy Coody.
Thence they marched to Spring Frog
town; thence up Coosa to Estanaula,
and destroyed it; thence through the
Old Hiwassee towns, to Chota, on the
tennessee river, where the friendly In.
oians and whites held council, and
thence the troops returned home.
Inc war OF the revolution which had
fal'en with such destructive weight
upon the Southern States, was now
drawing to q close. Every heart palpi-
lated with Joy at the prospect of peace
and independence. The opening of the
year 1888, found them in possession of
both; the storm of civil discord was
tranquilized, and the whole commu.
nifty became intent upon the reparation
of the shattered population and for.
tunes OF the country. The foundations
were laid OF a magnificent structure,
which will one day tower to the heav-
ems, and be viewed with admiration by
the whole earth, unless the builders,
like those of the tower of Babel, shall,
by disunion and confusion, be dispersed
in fragments to all parts of the earth.
The Assembly of North Carolina be-
gan Immediately to prepare for the
extinction of her national debt, and for
paying the arrears then due to the off.
GERS and soldiers on that part of the
Continental line which was raised in
the State of North Carolina. The peo.
pie had then lively and stimulating
sense of the great obligations they were
under to this patriotic band of heroes.
But soon it began to die away, and
after short space, the impressions
which were once 80 deep, were no
longer discernable. In May, 1888, they
opened an Office for the sale of western
lands. Without any previous consul
tation with the Indians, they enlarged
the western boundary, "beginning on
the line which divided that State from
Virginia, at point due north of the
mouth of Cloud g creek running thence
west to the Mississippi; then down the
Mississippi to the thirty fifth degree of
north latitude; thence due east until
it strikes the Appalachian mountains;
thence with the Appalachian noun
tains to the ridge that divides the wa
ters of French Broad river, and the
waters of Nolachucky river; and with
the ridge, until it strikes the line de.
scribed in the act of 1778, commonly
called Browns line; and with that line
and those several water courses, to the
beginning" But they reserved for the
Cherokee hunting grounds, tract of
country beginning at the Tennessee,
where the southern boundary of North
Carolina intersects the same, nearest to
the Chiccamauga towns; thence up the
middle of the Tennessee and Holston,
to the middle of French Broad river,
which lines are not to include any
island or islands in said river, to tine
mouth of Big Pigeon river; thence up
the same to the head thereof: thence
along the dividing ridge between the
waters of Pigeon river, and Tuckasejah
river, to the southern boundary of this
State. At the same session, they di.
vided the county of Washington again,
and formed part of it into Greene
county; the dividing line began at
William Williams, in the fork of
Horse creek, at the foot of Iron noun.
tain; thence direct course to George
Gillespie's house, at or near the mouth
Big Limestone; thence a north course
to the line which divides the counties
of Washington and Sullivan; thence
with the said line to the Chimney Top
noun tain; Thence direct course to the
mouth of Clouds creek, on Holston
river. That part of Washington which
lay to the west of this line, was thence
forward to be the county of Greene.
The Assembly also laid off a district
for the exclusive satisfaction of the
officers and soldiers in that part of the
late Continental line, which was raised
in North Carolina. The claims to be
satisfied were founded upon certain
promises held out to them by the Legis-
lature of North Carolina, in May, $780,
They shortly afterwards provided, that
in case of deficiency of good lands in
this district to satisfy their claims, the
same might be entered upon any va.
cant lands in this State, which should
be appropriated for their satisfaction,
by grant.
On the Goth of October, in the year
1888, according to an act passed for the
purpose in May, John Armstrong;
office was opened at Hillboro, for the
sale of the western lands not included
in these reservatins nor in the counties
of Washington and Sullivan, at the
rate of ten pounds specie certificates,
per hundred. These certificates we're is
sued by boards of auditors appointed by
public authority for services performed,
and articles impressed or furnished in
the time of the revolutionary war, and
were made payable in specie. The
lands were to be entered in tracts of
five thousand acres or less, at the
option of the enterer. Vast numbers
of persons crowded to the office, and
were so clamorous and disorderly, that
no bushes could be done in the office
till the 23d; before which time they
had agreed to settle by lot, the order in
which their locations should be pre-.
8. Lted, to he entered in the entry
taker's book. By the 25th of May, vast
quantities of lands were entered, and
certificates to very large amount had
been paid into the public offices. A
provision in the laws directing surveys
to be made to the cardinal points,
rendered it wholly unnecessary to re-
sort to such constructions for fixing
the locality of entries, as the Judges of
Kentucky were forced to resort to, for
want of that provision. In this state,
if a beginning were called for, and the
direction of the survey could be ascer.
tanned by implication from the words
of the entry, Immediately the court ap-
piled the course in that direction to the
beginning, as if the same had been ex
pressed in the entry as they were in the
law; and the next line was determined
by the objects it was to adjoin or in
clude. The same precise certainty
could not be attained when an object
was to be included, and it was not said
in the entry in what part of the survey
but the law cured this mischief also
for it directed the surveys to be made
in the same order in which the entries
had been; and when that was done,
the unappropriated lands left for the
subsequent enterer, were distinguish
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