1To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Martin, 10 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly favoured with your Letter of March 26th. last respecting the line that forms the eastern boundary of the Cession of this State to Congress and the private claims within the Cession which form exceptions to their general right of granting the ceded Territory. I have not by me any immediate Map of the Western Country ceded to Congress otherwise with pleasure I should transmit it...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Martin, 24 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of the 6th. of June last enclosing a copy of a letter from Governor Blount notifying you of certain grants being obtained from the State of North Carolina for lands in the ceded territory south of French Broad river, on supernumerary warrants from Armstrong’s office. One of the conditions of the Act of Cession hath authorized “any person or...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Martin, 4 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In my last I did myself the honor to write you an answer to your letter respecting supernumerary warrants from entries made in Armstrong’s Office on lands lying south of French Broad river, between the waters of Tenassee and Pigeon rivers; I had not attended immediately (having the Cession Act then before me) to the Act of Assembly for opening the Land Office in the western Country, in which...