Elisha Baker is granted 200 acres on the north side of the French Broad River, on both sides of Long Creek, joining "the tract of land the said Baker now lives on," for a consideration of fifty shillings per hundred acres. Neighbors named are William Brigham and Nathaniel Brigham. The grant is signed by Governor Richard Dobbs Spaight and Secretary James Glasgow.
Source: North Carolina land grant, Warrant No. 336, Grant No. 1174, 12 Jan. 1793, Greene County.The phrase "joining the tract of land the said Baker now lives on" confirms Baker was already resident on an established home tract in the immediate vicinity at this date. This grant enlarges that home tract rather than establishing a new, separate one.
Issued the same day as Grant No. 337, following, the two filings together mark a single expansion of Baker's Long Creek holdings in January 1793.