Copy of document submitted by Mrs. Jo Anne Norwood

Meeting of the Cypress Land Company February 1849

first Ressulutton[?] the Division of the Land then Run out to which the propsion[proposition?] was to put in Two Draws a peace to which  was as he first that Draw shall in the Second Chois be last & son [so on] through the Hole of the Drawings to whitch Mason Whitten Drew first George 2d Stirling Philips 3d & so on, Mason Whitten being in titled to two Draws for himself & Thos. Hare & Taking their Chois he took one North & East of his Home place 2d west & south of Charles Whittens, George Whitten his south of his plantation Sterling Philips taks his North & East of Josiah Philips, Jas. Philips Takes his round his farme west of his farme Josiah Philips Takes his Round his farm Gray Philips his on Location Line on the East of M. Whittens John Philips Taks his on the West Boundary Line of Location & State [or Stak] line 2d Chois G Philips part on the State Line west Location line & some South of Josiah Darbys John Philip some on west side of Location & some Route his farm Stirling Philes Taks his N of Robert Lackey James Philip Taks his in diforant pieces Josiah Philips taks his in the same way Mason Whitten & Hare taks in diferant places George Whitten on the N & West corner of Location 56 – the amount suposed to be 650 Acres to each person — then the Company proced to appoint two of that Body to hunt out the small fractions of Land that was not included in said division to take notes &c & give bonds for notes to sell and Dispose of the land that is Claimed [or closed] for [unreadable] & to wind up the Hole of the Business whereupon John Philips & George Whitten was appointed to attend to the same & then the meeting ajorned  //s//G. Whitten & all the Compay –

[Note: This record deals with the division of a five thousand + acre entry which was bought by the eight men of the company: Mason Whitten, Thomas Hare, George Whitten, Sterling Phillips, Gray Phillips, John Phillips, Josiah Phillips and James Phillips. The land was bought at the Great Land Auction held at the courthouse in Waynesboro in the fall of 1848. This is the original copy of the meeting record and to my knowledge, it is not recorded anywhere in the deed records of Wayne County, Tennessee. Edgar D. Byler, III ]