LAND GRANT: 18 May 1789: Washington Co. Tennessee Deed Book 4 pgs 178-177: State of North Carolina No. 862; To all whom this pertains shall come ? Know ye that we for and in consideration of the sum of fifty Shillings for every hundred acres of land hereby granted paid into our transfing by Mordicai Price have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto the said Mordicai Price a tract of land Containing four hundred acres lying and being in our county of Washington in Sinking Creek the waters of Wattauga river Beginning at two little white oaks a corner