Peter Pinnell, Sr. did not go to Kentucky in 1804

Well, I suppose he might have done, but there's not any evidence that he did.  But what about the grant with the 1804 date?  The problem is that Jillson's book indexes grants but gives the date of the survey.  In the case of the grants south of the Green River, this can be misleading.  The law required that the purchase price of the grant be paid off before the grant could be issued.  This frequently took a number of years, and the entry or survey could change hands (be "assigned") several times between the time the grant process was initiated and the time it was finalized.  In this case, an examination of the actual grant shows that the entry was made by Enoch Hooper in 1801.  The land was surveyed for Enoch Hooper in 1804.  (The grant doesn't show who the survey was done for, but the tax records record this.) Hooper assigned part of the grant to John Bearden who assigned it the Peter Pinnel. Hooper assigned the other part to Jeremiah Moore who assigned it to Robert Woods who assigned it to Moses Clayton.  The grant finally was finalized in 1819 to Moses Clayton and Peter Pinnel.

At this point, the earliest reference to Peter Pinnell, Sr. in Kentucky that I know of is the 1809 tax entry in Christian County.  He first pays tax on the land he was granted in Caldwell County in 1814.

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