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State of Tennessee Fentress County
July 13th 1838.
this Indenture made and Entered into between Joseph HICKS of the one part and James BUCK of the other part both of the County and State of aforesaid Witnesseth that I James BUCK have this day sold and delivered unto the said Joseph HICKS for the Sum of fifteen Dollars to me in hand a certain tract of land lying in said County and State land three hundred acres by Estimation be the same more or less it being a part of a six hundred acre Entry made by the said James BUCK and John WOOD lying on the Waters of Crooked Creek the Boundary as follows beginning on Gambells Branch on the Winston GILL line near the Coal bank running East down the branch to the bear hollow thence with the branch thence South to the Morris or (looks like Buck tar Kill) Branch thence westwardly with branch and on to t [as submitted]
James (his mark) BUCK (Seal)
Witness Richard SPURLIN
Witness Henry W (his mark) EDWARDS
the day and date above written

State of Tennessee, Fentress County
I A. J. MACE Clerk of the County Court in and for said County and State debatize Enoch VOILES a Justice of the peace to take the proof of Joseph HICKS Relative to the signatures of the Within named Witnesses Witness my hand at office this the 25th day of June 1886. A. J. MACE Clerk

State of Tennessee, Fentress County
personally appeared before me Enoch VOILES a Justice of the peace in and for said County Joseph HICKS Who after being duly Sworn depose and States that the subscribing Witnesses Signed the Within Instrument in his presents Witness my hand this the 26th day of June 1886. Enoch VOILES J. P.

State of Tennessee The Within instrument and the Clerks & Justices Fentress County Certificate thereon came to hand and was duly Registered by me in Book R on pages 308&9. at 12 oc M on this 29th day of June 1886 Geo. S. KINGTON Register

Contributed by Jaydee

In consideraton of One Hundred Dollars, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, Bruno GERNT of Allardt, Fentress County, Tennessee here by sells and conveys to Daniel HICKS of the same County and State, his heirs and assigns forever the following described tract of land in the County of Fentress in the State of Tennessee to wit:

Being part of Fentress County Entry No. 581. Grant No. 4640 from the State of Tennessee to Wm. N. EDWARDS and beginning in the south line of said grant, where the land conveyed by Henry WHEATON to P. L. PHILLIPS, Trustee on the 21, day of January 1888 corners at a stone with three whiteoak and chestnut pointers; thence running with said South line 86 and 1/2 degrees east ninety poles to a hemlock on the East side of a branch; thence down said branch with its various meanders North about 75 yards to the cliff of Crooked Creek; thence with the various meanders of said cliff in a Northerly, westerly and Southerly direction to the falls of lumber branch; thence south about 12 poles to the place of beginning and containing fifty-eight acres, more or less.
Reserving however from this conveyance all the minerals, coal and oil in, on or under said tract of land with the right to said Bruno GERNT or his assigns to mine, dig or drill for said minerals, coal and oil and remove the same.

To have and to Hold said tract of land with all appurtenances, but subject to above reservations, to said Daniel HICKS, his heirs or assigns forever, hereby covenanting that the said Bruno GERNT has a full right to convey the same, that he is lawfully seized and possessed of the same and that it is unincumbered and that he will warant and defend the title to said tract of land, subject to above reservations, against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever.

Witness his hand and seal this 15th, day of September 1927.
Bruno Gernt.

State of Tennessee, County of Fentress
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned legal authority, Bruno GERNT, the bargainor in the foregoing deed with whom I am personally acquainted, and who acknowledged, that he executed the foregoing deed for the purpose therein expressed.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of my office on this the 1st day of October, 1927. My commission expires July 16th, 1931. B. M. COLDITZ Notary Public

State of Tennessee, Fentress County
Register’s Office May 7th, 1928
I, Roy P. WRIGHT, Register of said County, do certify that the foregoing deed and certificate are registered in said Office, in Book No “U2” page 368 that they were received May 5th, 1928, at 11 o’clock A. M. and entered in Note Book 4, Page 1.
Roy P. WRIGHT, Register, Edna PRICE, D. R.