Jessee & Elizabeth Ledbetter
Deed To
James J. Osteen
Deed Book 6, Page 519 - 520
Jessee and Elizabeth Ledbetter
To } Deed of Gift
James J. Osteen
Reg. 24th Jany 1843
State of
January the fifth day of Eighteen hundred &
forty three –
For the love and affection,
I Jessee Ledbetter and Elizabeth Ledbetter entertain for
James J. Osteen, we do hereby give transfer and convey to him our tract of Land
in Madison County Tennessee and in the 10th Surveyors District,
Range 3 and Section 7 Containing forty acres it being a part of 455 acre tract
of Land granted to Zinds Alexander and Robert Irvin
situation on Cypress Creek in Madison County and bounded as follows;
Beginning at the South east
corner of the said 455 acre tract and running North with the East boundary of
said tract eighty poles to a stake, thence South
eighty poles to a stake, thence along the South boundary of said 455 acres to
the beginning.
To have and to hold the
same to the said James J. Osteen and his heirs and assigns forever, we covenant
and agree for ourselves and heirs to warrant and defend the title to said tract
of Land to the said James J. Osteen his heirs and assigns against the lawful
claims of all person whatever.
In Witness whereof we have
hereunto set our hands and seals this the day and date
above mentioned.
Jessee Ledbetter {Seal}
Elizabeth
Ledbetter {Seal}
Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of; Roland Ledbetter
John
L. Ledbetter
State of
Personally
appeared before me Isaac M. Steele Clerk of the County Court of said
Witness my hand at office this 18th day
of January 1843.
Isaac
M. Steele, clerk
And Elizabeth Ledbetter having also appeared before
me privately and apart from her husband, the said Jesse Ledbetter, acknowledged
the execution of said deed to have been done by her freely voluntarily and
understandingly without compulsion coercion or restraint from her said husband,
for the purposes therein expressed.
Witness Isaac M. Steele, Clerk of said Court at
office this 18th day of January 1843.
Isaac
M. Steele, Clerk
State of
I,
James D. McClellan, Clerk of the county Court of said county do certify that I
rec’d the State Tax on this deed .. Jany 24th
1843
James D. McClellan, Clerk
State of
I
certify that the within Deed of Gift was this day filed in my office for
registration at 2 o’clock afternoon and noted in Minute Book M1, Page 14, this
24th day of January 1843.
Thomas
W. Gammwell, Register M. C.
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