Tallapoosa County AlArchives Deed.....Ray, Silas - Johnston, Sheriff July 3 1848
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Written: July 3 1848
Recorded: September 18 1848



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Tallapoosa Co., AL Deed Book E Pages 489 and 490
LDS Microfilm Number 1304521 Salt Lake City UT

SHERIFF (JOHNSTON) TO SILAS RAY 1848

The State of Alabama
Tallapoosa County
By virtue of a writ of Fiera Facias issued from the Circuit Court of Tallapoosa 
County in said State at the suit of Henry J. Pickard for the use of Silas Ray 
against Joseph Bryan Junior bearing date the Ninth day of May A. C. 1848 I 
Joseph Johnston Sheriff of the said County of Tallapoosa did lately levy and 
seize the lots lands or parcels of Land hereafter specified and after being 
duly and publicly advertised according to Law did at Dadeville in said County 
of Tallapoosa on Monday the third day of July 1848 present at Public Outcry to 
sell the same when Silas Ray was the highest and best bidder therefore at the 
price of Eighty Dollars the same being knocked off to him the said Silas Ray 
for the sum aforesaid.  In consideration of which I Joseph Johnston Sheriff as 
aforesaid do hereby bargain sell and convey unto Silas Ray his heirs and 
assigns the following described property viz The South East Quarter of the 
Section Eight Township Twenty two (22) and Range Twenty two (22) and also a 
Fraction of Twenty acres more or less of the same Section Township and Range.  
To have and to hold said bargained property or premises unto the said Silas Ray 
his heirs and assigns forever.  And I the said Joseph Johnston Sheriff as 
aforesaid do so far as the office of Sheriff authorizes and hereby warrant said 
property or real estate unto Silas Ray his heirs and assigns and the same to 
have hold use and enjoy in the same manner the aforesaid Joseph Bryan Junior 
Defendant as aforesaid could or might have held and enjoyed said property had 
not the same been seized and sold by the aforesaid writ of Fiera Facias.  In 
Witness whereof I the said Joseph Johnston Sheriff as aforesaid have hereunto 
set my hand and seal this 3rd day of July 1848
Joseph Johnston, Sheriff
By his Dept. Luke Davenport

The State of Alabama
Tallapoosa County
I John A. Jordan Clerk of the County Court in and for the said County do hereby 
certify that on the eighteenth day of September A. D. 1848 the written named 
Joseph Johnston, Sheriff by his Deputy Luke Davenport personally appeared 
before me and acknowledged that he signed sealed and delivered the within 
written Deed on the day of the date thereof to the within named Silas Ray for 
the purposes therein mentioned.  Given under my hand at Office the Eighteenth 
day of September A. D. One thousand eight hundred and forty eight.
John A. Jordan, Clerk
By J. Bostock, Dep. Clk.

The foregoing Deed filed in office for record 18th September 1848 and on the 
same say duly recorded.
John A. Jordan, Clerk
By J. Bostock, Dep. Clk.


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