Joseph Ivey Eaton LUNSFORD
DEED FROM
J. H. THOMAS
Deed Book N,
Page 635-637
26-Nov-1898
J. H. Thomas &
Wife
To } Deed 50 Acres 14th District $150.00
J. I. Lunsford
For
and in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars cash, in hand paid, the
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the further sum of one hundred dollars
to be paid in two equal payments for which promissory notes has been executed
bearing even date with this instrument; one note calling for fifty dollars and
due Nov 15 1899, drawing 6 % interest from date. The other note calling for
fifty dollars due Nov 15 1900 with 6% interest from date.
We, J. H. Thomas and wife,
H. E. Thomas, have this day bargained, sold and do hereby convey unto J. I.
Lunsford his heirs and assigns forever the following described lot or parcel of
land lying and being in the 14 Civil District of Crockett County, Tenn., known
as the Sinclair place, butted and bounded as follows; on the North by Rhodes heirs,
on the East by McCullough, on the South by Powell and Boykin, on the West by
Mann, containing fifty acres, more or less.
To have and to hold to the
said J. I. Lunsford, his heirs and assigns forever; and we covenant with the
said J. I. Lunsford, his heirs and assigns that we are lawfully seized and
possessed of said land and have a good right to sell same; and that it is
unencumbered; and that we bind ourselves and our heirs and assigns that we will
warrant and defend the title thereto to the said J. I. Lunsford, his heirs and
assigns forever against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever.
A special lien is hereby
expressly reserved and retained on the land therein conveyed until the whole
principle and interest is paid. And a
lien is hereby expressly retained on the crops raised on said land for each
year until all of the purchase money together with the interest thereon is
paid.
Witness our signatures this
the 26 day of Nov. 1898.
J.
H. Thomas
H.
E. Thomas
[ J. H. T. ]
[ 11-26-1898 ]
[ Documentary ]
State of
Personally
appeared before me, W. B. Bell, a Notary Public in and for said County and
State, the within named J. H. Thomas, the bargainer with whom I am personally
acquainted, and who acknowledged that he executed the within instrument for the
purposes therein contained, and H. E. Thomas, wife of the said J. H. Thomas,
having personally appeared before me, privately and apart from her husband, the
said J. H. Thomas, acknowledged the execution of said instrument to have been
done by her freely, voluntarily, and understandingly, without compulsion or
constraint from her said husband and for the purposes therein expressed.
Witness
my hand and official seal at Bells,
{Seal}
I
certify that the foregoing deed & certificate with amt of revenue as
required by law were rec’d for registration Nov 28, 1900 at 3 O’clock P. M.
& so noted in minute book No 2 Pages 200 & 201.
J. P. Neal, Reg.
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