some thirteen times.
She built a church in Saltville, and donated the
Elizabeth Cemetery next to it.
After Francis Preston and Sarah Buchanan
Campbell were married, her land and the associated salt works
became known as the Preston Works.
William King was born in Ireland, and was the brother of
Col. James King of Bristol and Kingsport fame.
William became the manager of the Preston Salt Works.
He became ambitious in his own behalf, and tried to go
out on his own. He
bought land with a tainted title (LO Q-345), and which over
lapped the land of Sarah Preston (LO 1-344).
In 1783 Alexander Outlaw had a survey done on 150 acres
that joined Campbell’s Choice on its southwest corner.
The survey was never granted.
Instead, Peter Lee got a settlement right for this
property, and ‘conveyed’ it to Alexander Outlaw.
Peter Lee got a settlement right in 1783 for 150 acres that
touched Campbell’s
Choice on its southwestern corner.
Peter conveyed this settlement right to Alexander Outlaw,
who had it surveyed that same year, and filed the survey in
Abingdon. Outlaw
then conveyed the settlement right and survey to Evan Lee, who
got a grant (LO Q-345) for it in 1785.
Evan sold it to James Crabtree, who sold it to John
Musgrove, who sold it to William King.
This tract overlay not only Sarah Buchanan Campbell Preston’s
grant of 1786 (LO 1-344), but also King’s own grant LO 40-
