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Background
Summers, 1929 lists a number of Edmiston land actions in 1774 and 1775. Most are described as "Lease and Release", which amounts to a transfer of the title to a parcel.[1]
Person's Involved
On the 15th of March 1774 William and Samuel Edmiston acquired a total of 1313 acres on the Middle and South Forks of the Holston. A year later William Edmiston proceeds to transfer rights to 1293 acres to various parties though the legal device of "lease and release". The persons acquiring the property include:
- William Edmiston Sr.
- Andrew Edmiston
- Robert Edmondson
- Robert Buchanan
- Andrew Buchanan
- Moses Buchanan
In 1775 the William Edmiston Sr is probably Person:William Edmiston (3), which means that the person transferring title is person:William Edmiston (5). This is reinforced by the fact that one of the transfers to William Edmiston Sr, is by William and his wife Margaret, matching up with William Edmiston (5), rather than Captain Person:William Edmondson (17) who was later killed at King's Mountain.
Andrew Edmiston is probably Person:Andrew Edmiston (2) son of William (5); Robert Edmondson is probably another son person:Robert Edmondson (5)
Family Relationship Diagram
Possible Interpretation
What this looks like is that [[person:William Edmiston (5)] exercized a substantial land warrant in 1774, and then redistributed that to various parties the following year. Three of the six persons receiving lands were close relations with the Edmiston surname; and the remainder were Buchanan's. Since these transfers mostly took place on the same date (27 July) or a few days later (August 1), it looks very much as if these sales were not simply sales to available buyers, but all were close relations. This implies that the Buchanans were related in someway to the Edmiston's, possibly through William (5)'s mother Margaret, who is thought to be a Buchanan by many.
Data
| Page | County | Date | Person | Description
| | 659 | Fin | 15 March 1774 | William Edmiston | 108 acres south fork of Holston
| | 659 | Fin | 15 March 1774 | Samuel Edmiston | 205 acres south North Side middle fork of Holston
| | 659 | Fin | 15 March 1774 | William Edmiston | 1000 acres btw Middle and South Fork Holston
| | 670 | Fin | 27 July 1775 | William Edmiston | Seven entries for William Edmondson/Edmiston selling land to various parties between Middle and South fork of the James as follows
| | 670 | Fin | 27 July 1775 | William Edmiston | To Andrew Edmiston 247 acres, for L37-1
| | 670 | Fin | 27 July 1775 | William Edmiston | To Samuel Buchanan Jr, 354 acres for L53-2
| | 670 | Fin | 27 July 1775 | William Edmiston | To Robert Edmondson, 214 acres for L32-5
| | 670 | Fin | 27 July 1775 | William Edmiston | To Robert Buchanan 378 acres fro L56-14
| | 643 | Fin | 1 Aug 1775 | William Edmiston | lease and Release to Andrew Buchanan proven by oaths of the witnesses.
| | 643 | Fin | 1 Aug 1775 | William Edmiston Sr. | Receives lease and release from William Edmiston and wife Margaret
| | 670 | Fin | 27 July 1775 | William Edmondson | To Moses Buchanan 80 acres for L12-3
| | 670 | Fin | 27 July 1775 | William Edmondson | To Andrew Buchanan 324 acres fro L48-14
| | 670 | Fin | 27 July 1775 | William Edmondson | To William Edmondson Sr, 237 acres fro 35-11
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Footnotes
- ↑ Modified from Wikipedia 28 March 2009: "There was a special form of grant called a release that could be used to convey a future interest to someone who already had a current interest. The modern version is called a quitclaim. This resulted in a very popular form of conveyance called a lease and release. Two agreements were required.
- First, a bargain and sale contract was executed by the seller to convey a lease on the land. Unlike an outright sale, leases did not require enrollment in a public registry.
- The seller then separately executed a release to grant to the buyer (who was now his tenant) a reversion of the seller’s interest.
The effect was to transfer title to the buyer, since he now owned both the current and future interests in the land." The advantage of this is that it apparently avoided certain registration requirements normally required in land transfers.
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