Dade County GaArchives Deed.....Forester, Peter - Wilson, Joseph W. December 7 1852 ************************************************ 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: Cynthia Forde rebjar@direcway.com May 20, 2004, 8:04 am Lot 249, Dist 11, 4 Sec., 120 Acres Written: December 7 1852 Recorded: February 18 1853 Submitter: The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Vold Forde 25487 Old Howth Road Hempstead, Texas 77445 Copied by Sue Parham Forrester, 17 May 1990 HC-65, Box 715 Cloudland, Georgia 30731 LOT # 249 (120 acres) Sale by Peter Forester to Joseph W. Miller 7 December 1852 Clerk of Superior Court Office Dade County (Trenton) Georgia Deed Book ‘C’, pp. 310-311 State of Georgia Dade County This indenture made this twenty seventh day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty two by and between Peter Forester of the one part and Joseph W. Miller of the other part both of the State and County aforesaid. The said Peter Forester returneth that ‘for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars in hand paid at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained and conveyed and confirmed and by these presents so do grant, bargain, sell, and convey and confirm unto the said Joseph W. Miller his heirs and assigns that parcel of land situate lying and being in the County of Dade and State of aforesaid known and distinguished as lot no. two hundred and forty nine (249) in the eleventh district and fourth section of originally Cherokee now Dade County, Georgia commencing at the center of the west line thence running East to the center of said lot to a rock corner thence running South to the center of the original line thence running to the South East corner thence to the North East corner thence to the North West corner thence to the center of the West line cornering on a rock containing one hundred and twenty acres more or less. To have and to hold the said tract as parcel of land with all and singular the rights members and (?) apportioning to the only proper use benefit and behalf of the said Joseph W. Miller, his heirs, executors, and administrators, and assign, in fee simple and the said Peter Forester the said bargained tract or parcel of land unto the said Joseph W. Miller his heirs executors and administrators and assigns against the aid and every other person or persons shall and will warrant and forever defend by virtue of these presents in witness whereof the said Peter Forester had hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal and delivered these presents the day and year first above written signed sealed and delivered in presents of us. Test. P.A. Tatum Peter Forester (seal) Gailatin Stevens, (J.P.) Registered February 18th, 1853 Jas M. Call, Clerk Additional Comments: Joseph Wilson MIller was the son of John Miller and Nancy Mary Wilson; the Miller family removed from Monroe County, TN ca. 1835 to Rising Fawn, Dade County, GA where the children were raised on the place now called 'The Old Lambeth Place." He married Sarah 'Sallie" Davis of that city ca. 1852. MILLER -- Died, at the home of S.R. Mc Nutt, in Arkadelphia, Arkansas., on January 26, 1903, Reverend Joseph W. Miller. Born in Tennessee May 11, 1830; joined the church in childhood; licensed to preach and ordained local deacon, when a young man. Married three times. Brother Miller chose law as a profession and was successful. Yet he always had time to attend church and help hold a meeting. His life was a success. He enjoyed religion, lived happy and died in the faith. His membership was in Clark Circuit when he died. He was a loyal Methodist and died in the faith. May his living children be as faithful as their father. His pastor, D. D. Warlick. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb