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John Martin's Bounty Land Grant for 3,000 Acres
This land was not for military service, but due to a Legislative Act.
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"Early Iron Making in North Carolina
As late as 1764. no forges or furnaces had been erected in North Carolina, [3] but beginning in the 1700's, ironworks, mostly furnaces, began appearing in the Piedmont area and spreading into the foothills. [2]
In 1772, the Surry County Court ordered an ironworks road opened from Longbottom, at the foot of the Blue Ridge, to Little Elkin Creek, where David Allen was setting up ironworks.
Near the end of the Revolution, a limited number of men were exempt from military duty to manufacture iron at David Allen's and at certain other works. [2]
To encourage iron making, a North Carolina legislative act of 1788 offered for every set of ironworks erected, a bounty grant of 3,000 acres of vacant land certified as unfit for cultivation by the county court. It promised tax exemption for a decade if works were set up within three years of the grant and produced 5,000 weight of iron annually. [2]
2. North Carolina Historical Review. Vol. IX, No. 4. October, 1932. North Carolina Historical Commission. p. 331-348.
3. Surry County. Court records. 1772.
Survey for John Martin a tract of land containing three thousand acres entered in Stokes County as a County Claim for Iron works on the 31st day of May 1794 on the waters of the little Yadkin and the Double Creeks of Dan River..
Stokes County Court Books: Vol. 2, Page 51
The jury appointed to view certain entries made by John Martin for the purpose of erecting iron works made the following report: "That we certify that from the north edge of the Flatt Rock and waters of the Little Yadkin and Double Creeks of the Dan River adjoining his own land, Timothy Rowarks, Anthony Hoggans, and others containing in the whole 3,000 acres are unfit for cultivation and ought to be applied to the use of erecting iron works, the same being a sufficient quantity." Which report is filed.
Land survey for Abijah Pinson, Surry County, from Lewis Connor and John Martin Executor of James Martin Decd
Assignment to Abijah Pinson, son of Richard Pinson, by Lewis Connor and John Martin Administrator & hair (sic) of Jas Martin Decd
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