The following lists, the names of nearly all who entered lands in each year, and in each congressional township, prior to the year 1840, are given, viz.:
T8-1: (Blairsville Twp) 1829, James S Russell & Richard Tiner; 1831 William Wilson; 1836 William T Ryburn, John Stacks, Hannah Stacks & Isham Minor; 1837 Sarah Hinchcliff, Benjamin W Thompson, Lewis Hogg, Willis Tiner, William B Sanders, Joshua Tiner, Matthew N Ryburn, Jacob Painter, John D Ryburn & James Mannering; 1838 Thomas Burns, John J Ryburn & James Mannering; 1839 Abraham North, John Woolsey, John N Ryburn & Bird T Ryburn.
T9-1: (Carterville Twp) 1816 Nathan Arnell, a Baptist preacher; 1817 Nathan Piatt & William Lindsey; 1819 John Smith; 1827 Solomon Snider; 1831 Joseph Kershaw; 1832 Abraham North; 1833 Thomas Jones & William T Ryburn; 1835 Joseph Renshaw; 1836 William C Stover, James W Ryburn, Samuel H Ryburn, Peter Myers, Ephriam Snyder & Jasper I Crain; 1837 Cyrus Campbell, Michael Snyder & George D Gordon; 1838 Nancy Bainbridge
T10-1: (Grassy Twp) 1818 Solomon Snyder; 1831 John Smith; 1832 Spencer Crain & Oliver H Wiley; 1834 Martin B Spiller; 1836 Eli Hudson & Edwin Roach.
T8-2: (Herrin Twp) 1816 Isaac Herrin; 1818 Samuel K Perkins; 1819 William R Hines; 1829 David Herrin & Emanuel Hunter; 1831 Dudley W Duncan & Benjamin Chitty; 1832 Josiah Dillard; 1833 William P Duncan, Benajamin Spiller, James Duncan, Joseph Duncan, Roderick Reed, Alexander Arnett & Jacob Arnett; 1836 Jospeh K Dillard, Robert Lipsey, Hardy W Perry, Banjamin W Thompson, Simeon Spiller, John W Hoffman & Andrew Moake; 1837 William Harvell, George Cox, Joel Childress, Fred F Duncan & Andrew Sanders.
T9-2: (West Marion Twp) 1817 John Nelson, who built the 1st shingle-roofed house in the county, it being on Phelps'Prairie, adn the shingles being made by Wm Benson; 1818 Elijah Spiller, Ragsdall Rollin, John R McFarland & John Norris; 1819 James Duncan, Wm Spiller & Sterling Hight; 1820 WS Duncan; 1829 James Wiley & Reuben Powell; 1833 Wm H Duncan, Thomas H Watson, Henry Robertson, James Sanders, Silas Gratton, Andrew Henry, Wm Norris, Austin Y Kelley, Joseph Oglesby & John Stephens; 1836 Warrenton K Spiller, Elbert C Spiller, Allen Bainbridge, Thomas GW Murphy, Wm Benson, Noah Crain, Archibald C Wagoner, Thomas Scurlock, John Davis, Wm Roberts & Charles Cagle; 1837 Samuel MN Dunaway, John Hundley, Samuel Aikman, James M Campbell & Samuel Cripps; 1839 Giles Connell.
T10-2: (Southern Twp) 1833 Dickson Ward; 1836 Benjamin MnIntosh; 1837 Winfrey L Crain; 1839 John M Parks. Only a few entries were made in this twp prior to the year 1850.
T8-3: (Lake Creek Twp) 1830 Robert Worthen; 1833 Jacob Sanders; 1836 James Goddard; 1837 Pleasant L Finney, Wm Pike, Jacob Hunter, George W Binkley & Thomas Sanders; 1838 Robert Martin; 1839 Samuel Beasley. The remark above applies to this twp also.
T9-3 (East Marion Twp) 1816 James L Cochran; 1817 Richard Bankston; 1819 George Davis; 1828 Samuel Swafford; 1833 William Groves, George Zachariah, James A Parks, John D Sanders, Elijah N Spiller, Dempsey Odum, Timothy Feel and John Eaton; 1836 Luke Simmons, Joseph Grisson, Wm Pulley, James Campbell, Benjamin Bell, Moses Spring, Joshua Motsinger, John N Calvert, Joab Goodall, Aaron Alexander, John Bradley, James and Wm Ellis; 1837 Thomas Harris and Addison Reese; 1838 William Benson; 1839 Robert L Pulley, Thomas Culbreath, William T Davis, Nicholas B Chenoweth and Alfred Ferrell.
T10-3 (Creal Springs) 1816 Thomas Griffith; 1833 Gabrial Sanders, James Hill and Cutworth Harrison; 1836 Sterling Hill, Thomas Loudon and Henry H Hudgens; 1838 Elias McDonald. Only a few tracts of land in this township were entered prior to 1850.
T8-4 (Corinth) 1814 Francis Jordan; 1819 Richard Ratcliff and Thomas Roberts; 1833 Isiah Harlow; 1836 David M Logan, Matthew G Martinf, Enoch Newman and Wesley Yost; 1837 Levi Summers, George Whitley, William Francis, James Milligan, William A Roberts, John S Roberts and James R Stewart.
T9-4 (Crab Orchard) 1817 David Shultz; 1833 Hugh Parks and Elijah Mooneyham; 1836 David Scoby, Aaron Arnold, John Wright, Charles Erwin, Daniel Moseley and Washington Beasley; 1839 William Ferrell and Philip T Corder.
T10-4 (Stone Fort)1818 Samuel Deason; 1820 James M Daniel; 1836 John C Parks, James Tanner, James Arnold and Elijah Mooneyham; 1837 John T Davis, Samuel Wright and John E Gibbs; 1838 John Wright and James Newton; 1839 Thoms D Davis.
It wil be observed that only a few scattering tracts f land in this county were entered prior to the year 1833, when a large number of entries were made, and that the largest number of entries made during any one year prior to 1840 was in the year 1836. During te decade of the forties, but few entries were made. Only about 1/5 of all the land in the county was entered prior to the year 1850. And during the decade of the fifties, more than 1/2 of all the lands in the county was enterd. After the gradation act was passed by Congress in 1854, reducing the price of the public land from $1.25 to 12 ½ cents per arce, they were entered very rapidly, for a few years, and until nearly all of the best quality was taken up. Those who made the entries, as mentioned in the foregoing lists, were all early settlers, nearly all of whom located n the townships where their lands were located. For further particulars concerning the early settlers, their disadvantages and inconveniencies and their manner of living, the reader is referred to this subject in the history of Franklin Co, as given in this work.