Tallapoosa County AlArchives Deed.....Sturdivant, A. D. - Ray, James M. March 4 1856
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Written: March 4 1856
Recorded: March 4 1856


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Tallapoosa Co., AL Deed Book J Pages 654 and 655
LDS Microfilm Number 1304523 Salt Lake City UT

JAMES M. RAY TO A. D. STURDIVANT 1856

The State of Alabama
Tallapoosa County
Know all men by these presents, that whereas Allen D. Sturdivant is security 
for me James M. Ray upon a certain promissory note made payable to John Bostock 
for fifty dollars, due the twenty fifth day of December 1856, and dated the 25 
day of February of the same year, and the said James M. Ray being desirous to 
secure the said Allen D. Sturdivant upon his liability as said security, I 
hereby bargain, sell and convey unto the said Allen D. Sturdivant eight head of 
cattle, consisting of two milch cows, one red color, the other white and red 
spotted, and two calves, and two heifer yearlings, red and white spotted & two 
bull yearlings one white the other black color, Now if the said James M. Ray 
shall pay off or cause to be done the said above promissory note, as set forth 
and described at Maturity together with all the expenses accruing upon this 
mortgage, and all interest that may accrue upon said note, then this obligation 
to be null and void, to all intents and purposes, but if the said James M. Ray 
should fail to pay off or cause to pay off said above described note at 
maturity, then the said Allen D. Sturdivant shall be authorized and empowered 
to seize upon and take and expose to sale at public outcry before the court 
House door in the town of Dadeville or at the premises of said James M. Ray, or 
privately as he may think best, by giving ten days notice at three or more 
places in the county of the time and place of such sale, the aforesaid 
described property, in order to pay of said promissory note, and after 
discharging the amount of said note, if any remainder be, and the expenses of 
this mortgage, the balance to be paid over to the said James M. Ray.  In 
testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal.  This March the 4th 
1856.
James M. Ray

The State of Alabama
Tallapoosa County
I, Luke Davenport an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and 
State aforesaid, hereby certify that James M. Ray, whose name is signed to the 
foregoing conveyance, and who is known to me, acknowledged before me, on this 
day, that being informed of the contents of the conveyance, he executed the 
same voluntarily on the day the same bears date.  Given under my hand this 4th 
March A. D. 1856
Luke Davenport, J. P.

The foregoing conveyance was filed in office for record 4th March 1856 & duly 
recorded April 5th 1856.
Simeon Goolsby, Judge of Probate


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