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GILLESPIE DOCUMENTS IN TENNESSEE - 1787 to 1800

20 September 1787 - State of North Carolina to John Gilespy, 10 pounds for every 100 acres, 450 acres on Lick Creek in Greene County ... Thomas Witeaker; grant #293, registered 8 July 1789. Greene County, TN Deed Book 1:243-244.

20 September 1787 - State of North Carolina to James Gilespy, 10 pounds for every 100 acres, 150 acres on Lick Creek in Greene County ... Wyats line ... corner to John Gilespy; grant #348, registered 8 July 1789. Greene County, TN Deed Book 1:244-245.

1 August 1791 - William Gilespie, admr., and John Cohran, guardian of orphat children of James Gilespie, deceased to Giles Bogue, both of Greene County and Territory South of the Ohio, 100 pounds, on Lick Creek ... corner to John Gilespie ... 150 acres, granted to James Gilespie deceased bearing date 20 September 1787, #348. Signed: William Gilespie, John Cohran. "I Sarah Hannah formerly Sarah Gilespie widow and relict James Gilespie, deceased do hereby relinquish and quit claim to my right of dower to the above mentioned tract of land ..." Teste: A Roan. Signed: Sarah x Hannah. Greene County August Session 1791. Greene County, TN, DB 2:119-120.

8 January 1800 - William and John Gillaspie and Elizabeth Gillaspie relict of John Gillaspie, deceased, to Richard Curtain of Greene County, $834, on North side of Nolachuckey River on Lick Creek, 450 acres. Witnesses: J. Sevier, Thomas Conway(?), Thomas Peel(?), Thomas Adams. Signed: William Gillaspie, John Gillaspie, Elizabeth x Gillaspie; Greene County Court April Term 1800; registered 24 January 1801(?). Greene County, TN Deed Book 4:367-368.

Note: According to Dorothy Gillespie, 717 Highland Ave., Malvern, AR 72104, this James Gillespie with wife Sarah, was the grandson of James, Sr. and Jennet of Augusta County, through their son, John. She states further that the John mentioned here (son of James, Sr. and Jennet), died 16 March 1796 and that his son, James was killed by Indians in October 1788. James and Sarah had two minor children at the time of his death ... mentioned in court records. This is the James and Sarah of Sevier County, NC (or State of Franklin) who sold land on Elk Run in Augusta County to Andrew Lacky.

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