Woodfolk v. Blount

The bill charges that a certain Nathaniel Williams was entitled to 256 acres of land, as an officer in the Continental Line ; that on the 16th of May, 1785, he sold the same to a certain Grafton Ireland for a valuable consideration, and executed *120a transfer directing the grant to issue in the name of said Ireland ; that on the 7th of March, 1786, a grant issued to said Williams, the transfer not having been filed in time to enable Ireland to obtain a grant in his own name; that after the issuance of said grant, which includes the lands now in dispute lying on Cumberland River in Smith County,…