Source: Sumner County Deed Book A, pages 1 & 2
Contributed by Joyce Hetrick (joyce@mev.net)
© Feb. 2000
This indenture made the thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred ninety seven in the twenty second year of the Independence of the United States of North
America between James WILSON Senor of the State of Tennessee and county of Sumner of the
one part and Frances FONVILLE of the State and County aforesaid of the other part. Witnesseth
that the said James WILSON for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred & six dollars to
him in hand paid by the said Frances FONVILLE the receipt whereof his doth thereby
acknowledge & himself therewith fully satisfied and contend and paid that granted bargained and
sold and confirmed & by these presents doth grant bargain sell and confirm and makes over to the
said Francis FONVILLE his heirs and assigns forever all that tract or parcel of herein after
mentioned described containing fifty one and a half acres of land more or less it being part of a
tract of land originally granted to Peter P. LOONEY by letters pattent under the grate seal of the
state of North Carolina baring the date of 17th (7th?) April 17_?_6 & conveyed by deed by the
said Peter P. LOONEY unto John WILSON and James WILSON baring date the fifteenth day of
October 1788 lying and being in the county of sumner on the water of Sinking Creek beginning at
a mulberry and running thence north one hundred and thirty five poles to a mulberry thence south
one hundred and thirty five poles to a locust & small ash thence west sixty one & two tenths poles
to the beginning containing fifty one and a half acres of land more or less to have and to hold the
before described tract or parcel of land & premises with the appurtenances to him the said
Frances FONVILLE his heirs and assigns forever and the said James WILSON doth hereby for
himself his heirs executors & administrators covenant and agree to and with the said Frances
FONVILLE his heirs and assigns forever to warrant and defend the aforesaid land and premises
against the claim of all persons whatsoever claiming or l awfully to claim. In witness whereof the
said James WILSON hath _______to set his hand and affixed his seal the day and year ____above
written. Signed & sealed & delivered in the presence of Matthew BROWN Jurat, Joseph
WILSON, Registered November the 7th 1797.
James WILSON
James A. WILSON, D. R.