| About Website | About tracesofweakley, including contact info and permissions |
| About Weakley County | A short introduction to our county |
| Search by Name | Enter a person's name to search for Warrants, Occupant Entries, Register of Deeds Entries, or Grants related to original land owners. |
| Search by Number | Enter a Warrant, Register of Deeds Entry, or Grant number in order to find the original land owner and other information associated with that document. |
| Waterways | A list of the main rivers and their branches in Weakley County. Here, you can find the original land grants and people who settled along each branch of the river. |
| Index by Last Name | This is a general search of names other than the original grantees. This includes names that are mentioned within the land descriptions, deeds, and other pertinent information found in these documents. |
For more information on the steps involved in obtaining a land grant, you might enjoy reading:
This Land Is Our Land!
Tennessee's Disputes With North Carolina
By Gale Williams Bamman, CG, CGL.
www.tngenweb.org/tnland/bamman.htm
Retracing the Trails of Your Ancestors Using Deed Records
by William Dollarhide
from the Genealogy Bulletin, Issue No. 25, Jan-Feb 1995
www.directlinesoftware.com/deeds.htm
Land information at this site is based upon the Matthew Rhea Survey Map (1832) in which Weakley County was a rectangular shape located in the 12th Surveyor's District, sections 1 and 2, ranges 5 thru 10, and 13th Surveyor's District, sections 1, 2, and 3, ranges 5 thru 10. Later the county lines were reformed to follow rivers and the county took a different shape.
Included is land granted by both the states of North Carolina and Tennessee which are part of what is, or once was, Weakley County. Occasionally, I have included grants in surrounding counties if they were mentioned as adjacent land to a Weakley County grant. In these cases, the grant specifies the county that it is part of and its relationship to Weakley County. Deeds, where the land was bought and sold, are in the process of being included. This site is a work in progress which will be updated periodically as new discoveries are made or mistakes are found, so please check back often. I have no further information on the land or people mentioned in the grant other than what has been provided.
I hope you will find the information at this site useful as you search for "footprints" that your ancestors left behind.
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