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At the April, 1792 term of court it was ordered that a jury consisting of John
Dillard and others view and lay off a road from the Wagon Ford of Rims Creek to join the road from the Turkey Cove to Robert Hunters on Lindsay Creek of Cane River, the most advantageous and best according to law, "which
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enacted a statute granting 3,000 acres (12 km) of vacant land "not fit for cultivation" for iron works as a bounty from the State to any persons who "would build and carry on the same". At the
October term of court in 1792, John Dillard and others were ordered by the court to be on a jury to
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Dillard descendants have operated since the Civil War lodging facilities under the name of the "Dillard House." One branch of his descendants still operates the
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Dillard's; William Brittain (who was an adjoining property owner of John Dillard) to attend and qualify said jury who are to report to July court."
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