Ebenezer Byram III 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 24 Jun 1743 - Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts
    Christening: 
          Death: 1826 -  ( at age 83) 1
         Burial: in Old Caledonia Presbyterian Cem., Knoxville, Knox Co., TN
 Cause of Death:
Parents 
         Father: Ebenezer Byram II (1716-1762)
         Mother: Abigail Alden (1721-1762)
Spouses and Children 
       Children:
                1. Huldah Byram (1771-1868)
Notes
General:
LAND GRANTS in TENNESSEE:

The following land grants in Tennessee to Ebenezer Byram are from "North Carolina and Tennessee, U.S., Early Land Records, 1753-1931" at ancestry.com. They are all described by metes and bounds. The 1787 grant indicates that Ebenezer was living in Greene Co. in the NE corner of the state in 1787. Greene Co. was formed from Washington Co. in 1783. Little Limestone Creek is today in Washington Co., not in Greene Co. Ebenezer Byram was probably living in Washington Co. in 1782.

There is more than one Beaverdam Creek in Tennessee. The three 400-acre tracts granted to Ebenezer Byram in 1788 may have been in Johnson Co., which is the northeasternmost county in the state. Johnson Co. is 40 miles or so NE of Washington Co. Hawkins Co. is immediately north of Greene and Washington Counties and due west of Johnson Co. All 4 of these countes are in the NE corner of the state.

However, other evidence indicates that Ebenezer Byram was living in Knox Co. as early as 1792. Beaver Creek is in Knox Co., and the three 400-acre grants may have been in Knox Co., which is west of the 4 counties previously mentioned but still in eastern Tennessee. The 1796 land grant on Beaver Creek is probably in Knox Co.

The metes and bounds description indicates that the two grants in July 1794 are for the same 691-acre tract in Cumberland Co. in the Middle District of Tennessee.

Ebenezer Byram 24 Oct 1782; for and in consideration of fifty shillings per 100 acres granted, a tract of 200 acres "lying and being in our County of Washington on a small branch of Little limestone creek"; North Carolina (Revolutionary War) Land Grants > Roll 15: Book 4; image 148/379

Ebenezer Byram 20 Sep 1787; for and in consideration of ten pounds per 100 acres granted, a tract of 300 acres "lying and being in our County of Greene on the head waters of little Chuckey, including the improvement he now lives on"; North Carolina (Revolutionary War) Land Grants > Roll 13: Book 2; image 9/329

Ebenezer Byrum 11 Jul 1788; 400 acres "lying in our Eastern District on Beaver dam Creek including a large pond spring"; Warrant No. 1326 surveyed by Thomas Hutchings, Levi Hinds & Thomas Cowan chain carriers; North Carolina (Revolutionary War) Land Grants > Roll 05: Book C; image 58/208

Ebenezer Byrum 11 Jul 1788; 400 acres "lying in our Eastern District on Beaver dam Creek"; Warrant No. 1331 surveyed by Thomas Hutchings, Levy Hinds and Aulden Byrum chain carriers; North Carolina (Revolutionary War) Land Grants > Roll 05: Book C; image 59/208

Ebenezer Byrum 11 Jul 1788; 400 acres "lying in our Eastern District on the West of Beaver dam Creek"; Warrant No. 1336 surveyed by Thomas Hutchings, Thomas Cowan and Matthew Bishop chain carriers; North Carolina (Revolutionary War) Land Grants > Roll 05: Book C; image 60/208

Ebenezer Byrom 8 Mar 1793; for and in consideration of fifty shillings per 100 acres granted, a tract of 100 acres "lying and being in our County of Hawkins joining his said corner at three white oaks"; North Carolina (Revolutionary War) Land Grants > Roll 19: Book 8; image 268/331

Ebenezer Byrum 12 Jul 1794; for and in consideration of ten pounds per 100 acres granted, a tract of 691 acres in the Middle District "on the side of Cumberland Mountain near the Northard war path"; North Carolina (Revolutionary War) Land Grants > Roll 20: Book 9; image 61/205

Ebenezer Byrum 7 Jul 1794; a tract of 691 acres "in our Middle District "on the South Side of Cumberland Mountain near the Nothard war path"; Warrant No. 1749, surveyed by Thomas King, John Blair and Robert Patterson chain carriers; North Carolina (Revolutionary War) Land Grants > Roll 01: Book A; image 58/133

Ebenezer Byrum 26 Feb 1796; 300 acres "in our Eastern District lying on both sides of Beaver Creek including an old Indian Cabbin"; Warrant No. 1327 surveyed by Stockley Donelson, Levi Byrum and James Bray chain carriers; North Carolina (Revolutionary War) Land Grants > Roll 05: Book C; image 58/208
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Sources

1 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 185062576.

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