THE STATE OF TEXAS
POLK COUNTY

                            KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT I, PATSY HARDIN, OF THE STATE & COUNTY AFORESAID DO FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION OF THE SUM OF FIFTY DOLLARS TO MINE HAND PAID BY ROBERT E HARDIN OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF THE STATE AFORESAID AND FOR OTHER GOOD AND VALUABLE CONSIDERATIONS HAVE BARGAINED SOLD ALIENED, CONVEYED, AND BY THESE PRESENTS, DO BARGAIN, SELL, ALIEN, AND CONVEY UNTO MY CHILDREN JOSEPH B HARDIN, WM B. HARDIN, ROBERT E HARDIN, MARTHA B CLEMMONS, ELIZABETH ANN WELLS, EASTER M HOOKER, BENJAMIN P. HARDIN, AND JAMES G. HARDIN AND ALSO TO MY GRANDCHILDREN, MARY M. TRACY, PATSY B. TRACY, BENJAMIN H. TRACY, WM. T. TRACY, TABITHA TRACY, & GIPSON TRACY ALL MY RIGHTS, TITLE, AND INTEREST IN AND TO MY INTEREST AND SHARE IN ALL THE REAL-ESTATE OF MY DEC'D HUSBAND, BENJAMIN HARDIN, OF WHATEVER CHARACTER OR KIND & BY WHATEVER TITLE I CAN OR MAY CLAIM & ALL OTHER INTEREST, RIGHTS, AND TITLE THAT I MAY HAVE IN THIS STATE TO ANY OTHER REAL PROPERTY AND PARTICULARLY ANY INTEREST IN AND TO THE HEADRIGHT CERTIFICATES OF MY HUSBAND BENJAMIN HARDIN NOW DEC'D FOR 640 ACRES OF LAND OR ANY LAND SURVEYED BY VIRTUE OF SAID CERTIFICATE AND ALSO MY INTEREST RIGHT AND CLAIM IN& TO THE HEADRIGHT CERTIFICATE OF MY SON GEO.W. HARDIN NOW DEC'D FOR 320 ACRES OF LAND OR ANY LAND LOCATED & SURVEYED OR LOCATED BY VIRTUE OF SAID CERTIFICATE THE SAID CERTIFICATE WAS GRANTD BY THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS - TO HAVE AND TO HOLD ALL MY RIGHTS TITLE AND INTEREST IN & TO ANY REAL ESTATE THAT I MAY HAVE IN THIS STATE AND TO THE SAID CERTIFICATE OR ANY LANDS LOCATED BY VIRTUE OF THE SAME, UNTO THEM THE AFORESAID NAMED PERSON TO THEM THEIR HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER AND I ,THE SAID PATSY HARDIN, FOR MYSELF-MY HEIRS, EXECUTORS ADMR? & ASSIGNS FULL POWER & AUTHORITY TO SUE FOR AND TAKE ALL & EVERY LEGAL MEANS FOR OBTAINING THE SER?? INTEREST AFORESAID CONVEYED. 
     IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I THE SAID PATSY HARDIN HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND MY SCROLL AS MY SEAL THIS THE 30TH SEPT. AD 1848
SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED IN PRESENCE OF:
W.S. POINDEXTER                                                                 PATSY HARDIN       (SCROLL)
M.L. TRACY

??TERTINED BEFORE SIGNED.  KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS THAT THE ABOVE MENTIONED ????? CHILDREN TO WIT, MARY M.TRACY, PATSY B. TRACY, BENJAMIN H. TRACY, WILLIAM J. TRACY, TABITHA TRACY, AND GIBSON TRACY ARE ENTITLED TO ONE NINTH PART OF THE PROPERTY SPECIFIED IN THE ABOVE BOND.
WM S. POINDEXTER 
M.L. TRACY                                                                              PATSY HARDIN      (SEAL)

THE STATE OF TEXAS
POLK COUNTY
                                  PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE ME M.L. TRACY ONE OF THE SUBSENTING WITNESSES TO THE FOREGOING INSTRUMENT OF WRITING, TO ME KNOWN, WHO ??? SAYS THAT HE SAW PATSY HARDIN SIGN SEAL AND DELIVER THE SAME FOR THE PURPOSES THERIN NAMED AND I DO FURTHER CERTIFY THAT THE ????? HAS BEEN BY ME RECORDED IN BOOK D PAGE 81
                          INTESTIMONY WHEROF I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY SEAL

(SEAL POLK)