CRAWFORD COUNTY, GA - Deed John A. Tharp and John Glover to Trustees Mt. Paran Baptist Church

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Crawford County
Deed Bk


This Indenture made this Seventh day of March in the year of
our Lord, One thousand, Eight hundred and twenty four,
between John A. Tharp and John Glover of the County and the
State aforesaid , of the one part , and Simon Parker and
John Cowan and Peter Castleberry, as Trustees for that
religious denomination called Baptists designed for a place
of their worship, a certain spot or parcel of their land
whereon they now live, lying on either side of their
dividing line, viz, beginning and cornering on a Red Oak, on
said dividing , thence running into Glover's land to a
public road and cornering on a pine, thence bounding by said
road to where Glovers West line crosses the same, then
cornering on a pine, thence turning North with said line the
same course to a branch, and cornering on a pine, thence
turning easterly following the meanders of the said branch
to a Sugar Maple, and cornering on the same, thence, running
South including a fine Spring and running to said dividing
line between the said Tharp and Glover and cornering on a
Hickory, as above named containing Seven acres more or less
we the Said Tharp and Glover do each one for himself to that
part attached to his own survey defend the rights thereof
from myself my heirs, and all other persons whatsoever to
the said denomination for a place of worship so long as they
see cause to continue the same, but if the above named
should at any time withdraw from or discontinue that place
as a place of worship, then the Land shall revert back to
said Tharp and Glover, of whoever may at the time be
possessed of said Land, which they now are in possession of.

In Witness where we have hereunto set our hands this day &
year above written.


Witnesses:
Wm. Simmons
John A. Tharp
John Glover
Henry Clem, J.P.

Recorded November 13th 1832