Marengo County AlArchives Deed.....Hightower, Charnell - Hightower, Joshua 1826
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Written: 1826

Deed of Gift from Joshua Hightower to Charnell Hightower

Marengo Co Alabama  Deed Book A pg 266  Feb 1, 1826   Recorded 1st day of Feb 1826

Know all men by these presents that I Joshua Hightower of the state of Alabama
and Marengo County aforesaid for and in consideration of the natural love and
affection which I have for and bear towards my grandson Charnell Hightower of
Walton County in the state of Georgia and also for and in consideration of the
sum of one dollar to me the said Joshua Hightower in hand paid and of the
conditions hereafter expressed accepted and agree to the said Charnell Hightower
before the signing, sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt of the
said sum of one dollar is hereby acknowledged have given granted delivered and
confirmed and by these presents do grant deliver and confirm unto my said
grandson a certain Mulatto man slave named Frank aged about twenty eight years
to have and to hold to the only proper use and benefit and behoof of the said
Charnell Hightower his heirs Executors Administrators and assigns forever.  The
foregoing gift and conveyance subject nevertheless to the following conditions
to wit.  First that the said Joshua Hightower is to have and retain to himself
the possession and use and to have the profit and benefit of the labor and
service of the aforesaid Mulatto man slave {Frank] for and during the natural
lifetime of the said Joshua Hightower and secondly the said Charnell Hightower
accepts of the aforesaid slave and the foregoing conveyance and conditions as
his full proportions and shares any and all Estates which have descended to him
the said Charnell by the death of Thomas Hightower his Father and also for any
and all Estates which may heretofore descend to said Charnell by and at the
death of the said Joshua Hightower and the said Joshua Hightower and the said
Joshua Hightower  for himself his heirs executors administrators doth farther
covenant and agree that said Charnell from and after the death of said Joshua
shall have hold use and possess the said slave Frank peaceably free and clear
against the claim or claims of all persons whatsoever. 

In witness whereof the said Joshua Hightower has hereto set his hand and seal at
Linden this fourth day of Feb A.D. 1826.    Joshua Hightower

Witness: John C. Jones. SS

Be it remembered that on the 4th day of February A.D. 1826 personally appeared
before me the undersigned Judge of the County Court of the said County of
Marengo the witness named Joshua Hightower who acknowledged that he signed
sealed and delivered the foregoing deed to the said Charnell Hightower on the
day and year herein mentioned given under my hand and seal as appears the day
and year aforesaid.    Thomas Ringgold JCC


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