Bulloch County GaArchives Deed.....Peacock & , Hunt Company - Thagard, W. P. & Bros Co. 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill Frazier fishtrap@bellsouth.net April 4, 2006, 10:54 am 48th GMD Turpentine Leases Written: 1885 Bulloch County Georgia Superior Court Deeds-Mortgages 48th GMD-Turpentine Leases 1885, January 31--- This Indenture made between W.P. Thagard, & A.G. Thagard of Bulloch County and HDP McGeachy & R.K. McMillen of Effingham County, copartners under firm name of Thagard & Bros. Co. unto P.L. Peacock, _.W. Hunt & Walter McNeill, copartners under the firm name of Peacock & Hunt Co. of Savannah Georgia. Witnesseth that Thagard Bros. & Co. was securing payment of 3 notes to the said Peacock Hunt & Co., did sell and convey unto Peacock Hunt & Co., all that certain tract in Bulloch County containing 400 acres, bounded North, formerly by S.T. Morris, East by Benjamin Waters & William Lee Jr., South by William Lee and West by E.A. Roach, being land conveyed by the said Roach to Warren and Wallace July 22,1872 and by JCC Black assignee to E.C. Lanier Feb. 3, 1883 and by C.C. Lanier to Thagard Bros & Co. March 17, 1883. Also that tract containing 8 ½ acres bounded by M.C. Moor and Tom Lee, said tract having been conveyed by M.C. Moor to Thagard Bros & Co. Feb. 1883 on which 8 ½ acre tract is located the [turpentine] still now used by said parties, the following turpentine leases, to wit: From E.S. Thompson, 207 acres, December 31, 1883 From J.A. Chitty, 165 acres, November _, 1882 From J.G. Chitty, 211 acres, January 12, 1883 From William G. Moor, 200 acres, January 31, 1883 From Elizabeth Kerby, ___ acres, January 13, 1883 From A.H. Belcher, 466 acres, December 13, 1882 From Solomon Hagins, 850 acres, November 2, 1882 From K.W. Banks, 200 acres, November 2, 1882 From C.H. Seaase, 148 acres, November 2, 1882 From M.G. Moor, 40 acres, February 2, 1883 From L.R. Downs to E.S. Thompson and transferred by said Thompson to Thagard Bros. & Co. On 207 acres, December 1, 1882. All leases for a period of 3 years. Also, 1-16 barrel turpentine still and fixtures, [a number of mules & wagons] [mortgage information] It is further understood & agreed that the said sum of $2500 dollars is advanced by said Peacock Hunt & Co. to said Thagard Bros. & Co. to enable the latter to carry on their business of manufacturing rosin , Spirits of Turpentine & other naval stores and said Thagard Bros. & Co. agree to ship any and all rosin, spirits of turpentine & other naval stores, which they may make or manufacture or desposal to the said Peacock Hunt & Co. at Savannah, Georgia for sale. [more points of doing business] Witnesses s/ Thagard Bros. & Co. J.M. Keebler W.P. Thagard, A.G. Thagard W.H. LcLean, 48th dist. GM HOP McGreachy, R.K McMillen Recorded March 28, 1885 26/38 Bulloch County Deeds Book *FB: 462-466 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/bulloch/deeds/thagard430gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb