Bulloch County GaArchives Deed.....Murphy, Henry &  Sarah  A. - Homestead, Application 1870
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Henry Murphy Homestead - Floyd's Branch
Written: 1870


Bulloch County Georgia
Superior Court
Deeds-Mortgages
Henry Murphy Homestead
Floyd’s Branch

1870, January 15--- To the Honorable R.W. Carswell, Judge of Superior Court of 
the Middle District of Georgia, Bulloch County.
The petition of Henry Murphy and Sarah A. Murphy showed that they are residents 
of Bulloch County and that Henry Murphy is the head of a family composed of the 
said Sarah A. Murphy his Wife and the children John M. Murphy, Susan Murphy, 
America Murphy and Ann Murphy, and that the said Henry Murphy had set apart for 
the benefit of his family, a homestead out of 300 acres, shown in a plat 
required by law, a copy of the plat hereto annexed marked “Exhibit A”,  that 
the said land is worth not over $500 dollars. Your petitioners further shows 
there are no buildings and few improvements of any kind on said land and the 
petitioners from their poverty are unable to put such improvements thereon as 
will cause the land to be profitable.
								S/ T.H. Potter, 
Atty. for Petitioners

Exhibit A
Plat
R.F. Saunders disposes and says that the plat is a true representation of the 
homestead of H. Murphy, is correctly platted and not worth more than $300 
dollars. [Bounded by Floyds Branch & Ichabod Newsome on the North, Jordan 
McCallum on the South and West and William Spears on the East.]
Witness:     E.A. Sorrier, Ordinary					s/ R.F. 
Saunders, Asst. Suv.

Clerks Office, Bulloch County
Recorded in Book A, Homesteads & Exceptions, page 72, January 27, 1870	R.F. 
Saunders, Clerk

In Superior Court at Chambers, October 26, 1881
The application of Henry and Sarah A. Murphy for sale & reinvestment of 
Homestead is approved and T.L. Griner, Esq. is appointed Guardian ad litem for 
John, Susan, America and Anna Murphy, minors.
								s/ R.W. 
Carswell, Judge

I consent to act as Guardian ad litim of John, Susan, America and Anna Murphy, 
minors.
October 27, 1881							s/ T.L. 
Griner


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