Johannes Vantrease deeded 187 acres of land to his son Jacob Vantrease and an equal amount to Isaac Grindstaff in 1809. The land was located on the head waters of the Hic Creek, Wilson County, Tennessee. Isaac Grindstaff's will was proved in Wilson County, Tennessee in December 1840. [4]
m. Mary _____
1840 - 1850: Johnson county, TN
Nicholas was born about 1780. Nicholas Grindstaff ... He passed away about 1800.[5]
Sources
↑ Debra Carlisle Woods, "490 - Michael Grindstaff Sr. and Descendants," in Carter County Tennessee and Its People (1796-1993), Margaret Ellis Sepello, Editor (Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1993), page 350.
↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCDK-RSR : 23 December 2020), Nicholas Grindstaff, Johnson, Tennessee, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
Source: S004324 1820 United States Federal Census: Ancestry.com, 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Fourth Census of the United States, 1820; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33, 142 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Censu
North Carolina and Tennessee, U.S., Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843. Name Nicholas Grendstaff. Warrant or Survey Date 20 Jan 1785. Warrant or Survey Number 2892. Record Type Survey Order. Tennessee. North Carolina Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783–1837. Land Office Records, 1783–1927, Record Group 50. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee. Publisher Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Publisher date 2013. Publisher location Provo, UT, USA.
"United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYL-B6P : accessed 2 July 2015), Nicholas Grindstaff, Not Stated, Johnson, Tennessee; citing p. 278, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 526; FHL microfilm 24,546.
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCDK-RSR : 23 December 2020), Nicholas Grindstaff, Johnson, Tennessee, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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