Source: Sumner County, TN Miscellaneous Deed
Book, 1860 - 1869
TSL&A Micrfilm #340
Transcribed by Jan J.
Barnes
©2002
Page 306
I do hereby nominate and appoint John M. Smart my Attorney in fact for
me and in my name to sell and convey to any person or persons their heirs
and assigns forever who will purchase the same by general warantee deed in
one or more tracts as he think best my tract of land in the state of Illinois
in the county of Johnson containing by estimation forty seven acres more
or less to wit lying and being in the county of Johnson and state of Illinois
and known and described as follows, to wit - the north East quarter of sections
eleven and seven acres off of the south east quarter of Section two designated
as follows, Beginning at the South East corner of said forty acres running
West eighty Rods thence north fourteen Rods thence East eighty rods thence
South fourteen rods to the place of Beginning all of which is in Township
fourteen South of range two East of the third principal meridian containing
forty seven acres more or less and take and receive the consideration money
or take notes for the same at his discretion, he may also Bring and prosecute
in my name any suit that may be necessary to gain possession of or Establish
my title to the same, Employ such counsil or other and as he may need at
my expense and charge and I do hereby ratify and confirm any act or thing
he may lawfully do in the premises as fully as if I was present and doing
the same myself this Octr 3rd 1865.
Test
M. Cummings
Jonathan
Smart (Seal)
Hyram Lacy
State of Tennessee }
Sumner County } Personally appeared before
me John L. Bugg Clerk of the County Court of said County Jonathan W. Smart
with whom I am personally acquainted and who acknowledgd that he made and
executed the foregoing of Attorney for the purposes therein contained.
Witness my hand at office this Octr 3rd 1865.
John L. Bugg
Clerk
By J. A. Trousdale
D. C.
Rec'd for Registration Octr 3rd 1865
Registered and Examined Octr 3rd 1865
S. Heermans
Dey Regr
For R. D. Moore
Regr. S. Co.