Heirs of
Pitts Gregory To Hugh McGinnis
Deed Book 2 Page 439-441
Transcribed by John Waggoner
Jr. Carthage TN 2003
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For the
consideration of three hundred dollars in hand paid we Matilda Stewart &
husband James Stewart & W.T. Gregory & Martha Shoulders & husband
James Shoulders & Mary Gregory & husband R. H. Gregory & July
Chaffin & Harvy Chaffin & E V Gregory heirs of Pitts Gregory. We have
this day bargained and sold to Hugh McKinnis his heirs and assigns a certain parcel
of land lying in Smith County Tennessee on the waters of Peytons Creek and on Nicky
Jack Branch containing by calculation sixty acres with the same more or less.
Commencing at a locust stump running with the conditional line to top of the
hill on Thomas Shoulders line thence north to a Buckeye on Thomas Shoulders line.
Thence west to an Oak on line thence with the conditional line to a maple stump
and corner, thence to the beginning to have and to hold the same to the said
Hugh McKinnis and his heirs and assigns forever. We do covenant with the said
Hugh McKinnis that we are lawfully seized of said land and have a good right to
convey it and that the same is unencumbered. We do further covenant and bind
ourselves & our heirs & representatives to warrant and forever defend
the title to the said land and every part thereof to the said Hugh McKinnis,
his heirs & assigns against the lawful claims of all persons whomever this
October the 14th, 1871.
Wit: W.T.Gregory SEAL
S. C. Gregory James Shoulders SEAL
J. J. Gregory Martha X Shoulders
SEAL
Julia
X
Chaffin SEAL
and husband
Harvey X Chaffin SEAL
R.H.
Gregory SEAL
& wife
Matilda X Stewart SEAL
Husband
James X Stewart SEAL
E.V. X Gregory SEAL
State of
Tennessee
Smith County
Personally appeared before me S. Allison
Clerk of the County Court aforesaid Hugh McKinnis who makes oath in due form of
law that Martha Shoulders, Julia Chaffin, Mary Gregory & Matilda Stewart
are unable to come before the county court to be privately examined to the
foregoing deed and that he wants J.J. Gregory Commissioner to take their
examinations to the same.
Sworn before
me on Oct 2/74 J.M. Fisher D.C. Hugh
McKinnis
Smith County
To J.J. Gregory Esquire – You are hereby
authorized to take the examination of Martha Shoulders, Julia Chaffin, Mary
Gregory, & Matilda Stewart privately and apart from their husbands relative
to their free execution of the within deed and the same to be taken to certify
under your
hand and seal. Witness - S. Allison
Clerk of the county court of said County aforesaid. At office October 2, 1874
S. Allison - Clerk
By J.M.
Fisher D.C.
State of
Tennessee
County of
Smith
This day the wife of James Shoulders
Martha the wife of R.H. Gregory Mary the wife of Harvy Chaffin having
personally appeared before me and having by virtue of the authority in me
vested have examined privately and apart from their said husbands and they
having acknowledged the due execution of the within annexed deed by them freely,
voluntarily and understandingly without compulsion or constraint by their said
husband and for the purpose therein expressed. Same is therefore certified.
Witness my hand this the October 2 1874.
J.J. Gregory J.P.
State of
Tennessee
Macon County
(Directs William Rickerson Esqire to take
the acknowledgement of Matilda Stewart privately.) Thomas J. Gregory
Clerk of Macon
Co Court