Tallapoosa County AlArchives Deed.....Pearson, James - Ray, Ransom July 19 1862
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Written: July 19 1862
Recorded: July 23 1862


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Tallapoosa Co., AL Deed Book N Page 188
LDS Microfilm Number 1304526 Salt Lake City UT

RAY TO PEARSON 1862

The State of Alabama
Tallapoosa County
Know all men by these presents that whereas I Ransom G. Ray of the state and 
county aforesaid and indebted to James M. Pearson by promissory note in the sum 
of two thousand and one 94/100 dollars dated July 19th A. D. 1862 and due 25th 
December A. D. 1862 and being desirous of securing the said Pearson in the 
payment of said sum of money of said note specified & for the further 
consideration of one dollar to me in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby 
acknowledged, I do hereby sell & convey the following described negro slaves to 
the said Pearson in absolute right, to wit;
Lewis a man about twenty fours years of age, Mary a woman about nineteen years 
old & her child Mariah about two years old, Harriett a woman about twenty six 
years old.  To have and to hold said negroes absolutely on the following 
conditions to wit; that if said Ray shall pay off and discharge said note with 
the cost of this mortgage by the day the same becomes due, then this mortgage 
to be null and void, but if not paid off & discharged by that time, the said 
Pearson his executors, administrators assigns or agent is hereby empowered & 
authorized to sell said negroes or so many thereof to the highest bidder for 
cash at the court house door in the town of Dadeville within the legal hours of 
sale (after advertising the same in a newspaper published in said town or by 
posting notice at three public places in said County for twenty day before the 
day of sale) as will be necessary to discharge said note & costs & cost of this 
mortgage.  That after paying off said note & interest and all costs therewith 
connected the said Pearson is to pay over to said Ray whatever of surplus there 
may be in his hand and to release any of said slaves to him and sold under said 
mortgage said Ray is hold said negroes within the County till the maturity of 
said note & so long thereafter as said Pearson may agree.  In witness whereof I 
the said Ransom Ray have hereunto set my hand & seal this 19th day of Jul A. D. 
1862.
Ransom Ray-his mark
Test. A. J. Lawery

The State of Alabama
Tallapoosa County
I Allen D. Sturdivant Judge of the Court pf probate for this County & State 
aforesaid hereby certify that A. J. Lawery a subscribing witness to the within 
& foregoing conveyance known to me appeared before me this day and after being 
sworn related that Ransom Ray Sr. the grantor in this conveyance voluntarily 
executed the same in his presence on the day the same bears date & that he 
subscribed his name as a witness in the presence of the grantor.  Given under 
my hand this 22nd day of July 1862. 
Allen D. Sturdivant, Judge & C.

Filed in office for record the 22nd day of July 1862 & recorded the 23rd day of 
July 1862.
Allen D. Sturdivant, Judge & C.




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