Stephen T. Lunsford & J. F. Dickey
Decree
Division of Land from Kirk, Mills & Ellis
Deed Book P, Page 196-198
22-Mar-1869
CHANCERY COURT
To} DECREE
S. T. LUNSFORD & J.
F. DICKEY
Rec’d Feb 11th
1871
at
11 O’clock A. M.
State of
Tuesday March 30 1869
Henry Kirk & Margaret
his wife
Nathaniel Mills & Almeda his wife
And Nancy Ellis
VS
Charlotte Ellis
Ethelana
Ellis
Amanda Ellis
William W. Ellis
George W. Ellis
And J. C. Ellis
Be it Remembered that on
this 30th day of March 1869 before the honorable Thomas C. Muse
Chancellor & c came on this cause for further hearing upon the coming in of
he report of the Commissioners appointed herein at a former term of this court
to divide the land herein ordered to be sold which report being unexcepted to is in all things confirmed and is in the
words and figures following to wit;
We the undersigned Commissioners appointed at the last
Term of the Chancery Court to divide the lands belonging to the heirs of Joseph
Ellis dec’d into tracts most suitable for sale would
most respectfully report that after examining the whole tract of land we thought
best to divide it into three 100 acres tracts as the accompanying plat shows to
wit;
Lot No. 1 begins at the
southeast corner of the original tract and runs thence west 160 poles to a
stake with pointers thence north 100 poles to a stake thence East 160 poles to
the beginning containing 100 aces.
* *
* *
All of which is
respectfully submitted.
A.
Enochs
S.
Parks
H.
V. C. Wynne
Also
for further hearing upon the coming in of the Report of the Clerk & Master
reporting the sale of said Land as divided by said Commissioners which Report
being unexcepted is in all things confirmed & is
in the words and figures following to wit;
In
this cause the undersigned appointed to make sale of the Three hundred Acres of
Land described in the pleadings would report that the Surveyor &
Commissioners subdivided said Land into three tracts of 100 Acres each and
furnished your Commissioners with the accompanying report of the said division
whereupon after advertising as directed he offered the same for sale in Newburn this 26th of September 1868 when the
tract marked No. 1 was sold to S. T. Lunsford and J. F. Dickey for the sum of
$825.00 of which they paid $82.50 in cash and gave S. T. Lunsford two notes at
six & twelve months from the date for $185.62 ½ each with J. F. Dickey
Security and J. F. Dickey’s two notes at six and twelve months from date for
$183.62 ½ each with S. T. Lunsford Security.
* * * *
Cash purchase being the highest bidder respectfully Sep.
26, 1868. F. G. Sampson com from which report is
appearing that Lot No. 1 as described in said Commissioners Report was sold to
S. T. Lunsford and J. F. Dickey for the sum of $825.00 of which they paid
$82.50 and gave their notes for the balance Due in six & twelve Months. *
It is therefore ordered adjudged & decreed by the court that all of the
right title claim & interest of complainant and defendant in and to Lot No.
1 be diverted and is hereby divested out of them & vested in the said S. T.
Lunsford and J. F. Dickey [Dickey] the purchasers of said Lot No. 1 as tenants
in Common subject to a lien for the purchase money. *
* *
State of
I, F. G. Sampson Clerk & Master of the Chancery Court
for said County do certify that the foregoing is a faithful Extract from the
proceedings in the cause indicated as the same appears of record in said Court
& that all the purchase Money for said land has been paid unto Court.
Witness my hand at office and the seal of said Court this
21st day of January 1871.
F.
G. Sampson, Clerk & Master
J. F. DICKEY and
To} Division of Land
S. T. LUNSFORD
Rec’d Feb 11th
1871
at
12 O’clock A. M.
We, J. F. Dickey & S. T. Lunsford have this day
divided the one hundred acre tract of Land purchased by us at Chancery sale and
decreed to us in common by the Chancery at Dyersburg Tenn. in the suit Henry
Kirk & others VS Charlotte Ellis & others as follows;
J.
F. Dickey conveys to S. T. Lunsford eastern half of said Land which begins at a
stake the corner between the tract sold in the same suit to N. A. Williams and
J. L. Cole, runs thence south along an old line 100 poles to a Dogwood &
Sweet gum pointer the North East corner of the fifty acres sold to J. F. Dickey
by N. Porter thence East 80 poles to the S. E. Corner the Ellis 300 Acres
thence North 100 poles to Williams’s S. E. Corner
thence West 80 poles to the beginning and S. T. Lunsford conveys to J. F.
Dickey the western half of said Land Beginning at the same stake said Lunsford’s
N. W. corner running South 100 poles to the dogwood pointers Dickey’s Corner thence West 80 poles
to the S. W. corner of the Ellis 300 Acres thence North 100 poles to Cole’s S.
W. corner thence East 80 poles to the beginning to have and to hold to said
parties in severly their heirs and assigns forever.
Witness our hand this the 28th day January
1871.
J. F. Dickey {Seal}
S. T. Lunsford {Seal}
Attest F. G. Sampson
State of
Personally
appeared before me Will Watkins Clerk of the County Court of said County J. F.
Dickey and S. T. Lunsford with both of whom I am personally acquainted &
who acknowledged the Execution of the within Instrument for the purposes
therein contained.
Witness
my hand at office January 28th 1871.
Will
Watkins, Clerk
By H. P. Doyle, D. C.
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