Posted on 08/15/2025 8:01:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
Some of my ancestors received Revolutionary War land grants in Tennessee. That was pretty common. Tennessee and Kentucky had been parts of North Carolina and Virginia and were largely unsettled.
As of July 4, 1776, the former colonies became states.
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