Acts of 1801 Chapter 46

COMPILER’S NOTE: Section 1 of this act is the only section which affects Hawkins County.

SECTION 1.  That Hawkins and Grainger counties be divided by the following lines, (to wit.)  Beginning on the north bank of Clinch river where the Hawkins and Grainger line crosses the same, thence down the north bank of said river Clinch, to a point opposite where the Knox and Grainger line strikes the said river, thence north, forty five degrees west, to the line which divides this state from the state of Kentucky, thence east with said line, to where it intersects with the line which divides this state from the state of Virginia, thence due east with the said line to a point from which a direct line of the beginning will leave six hundred and twenty five square miles in the county of Hawkins, and all that part of the aforesaid counties of Hawkins and Grainger contained within the lines before described, shall be a separate and distinct county by the name of Claiborne.

PASSED:  October 29, 1801.