Acts of 1797 Chapter 13

COMPILER’S NOTE: Section 4 of this act is the only section which affects Hawkins County.

SEC. 4. That the line dividing the aforesaid counties, shall be extended as follows, viz.  Beginning at a marked tree, near the dwelling house of James Blair, senior, on the line from Felps Reed’s to Thomas Henderson’s, thence to the said Henderson’s and Joel Dyer’s south west corner, thence a north course with said Henderson and Dyers line, so as to leave the house of Robert Patterson ten poles in Grainger county, thence a direct line to the upper end of the first island below the mouth of Big War creek, thence to the Black Lick, leaving the house of William Hord in Hawkins county, thence with the last mentioned course to the top of Powell’s Mountain, thence north, thirty west to the Virginia line.

October 28, 1797.