Effingham Co., GA - Land: Elias Hodges and Zachariah Henderson
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Deed Book E & F, page 229, Effingham County, GA Superior Court,
Dated 20 January 1800

State of GEORGIA

...This Indenture made the twentieth (20) day of January, in the year of our
Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred (continued on page 230)

and in the twenty fourth year of American Independence.

Between ELIAS HODGES of the said State and County of Effingham, planter, and
MARY, his wife, of the one part, and ZACHARIAH HENDERSON of the State and
County aforesaid, planter of the other part.

Witnesseth:  that the said Elias Hodges and Mary his wife, for and in
consideration of the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) to them in hand well and
truly paid by the said Zachariah Henderson, at and before the sealing and
delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, they the
said Elias Hodges and Mary Hodges, have granted bargained sold and released and
confirmed and by these presents do grant bargain sell alien release and confirm
unto the said Zachariah Henderson, and to his heirs and assigns for ever.

All that tract of land more or less ?(illegible) on the seventeenth (17th) day
of October, in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Eight (1798),
granted to the said ELIAS HODGES for One Hundred Acres, situate lying and being
in the said County of Effingham in the said state and buttng and bounding at
the time of the original survey thereof Northeast-by vacant;-Southeast by
DAVIES land; Southwest by HERBS and Northwest by HUNT’S land, beginning at a
black gum and running North forty one degrees and thirty minutes West forty two
chains and fifty links to a stake; thence North fifty degrees East, twenty four
chains to a pine; thence South forty degrees East forty two chains to a corner
and thence South forty eight degrees West twenty-three chains to the beginning,
including the place where the said Henderson now lives, together with all and
singular the house outhouse buildings and improvements set their hands and
seals the day and year first above written.

Elias Hodges signed his name and Mary Hodges her mark.

Signed in presence of: JOHN MOORE ABEL G. LOPER

[beginning page 231]

I, MARY HODGES, the wife of ELIAS HODGES, do declare that I have freely and
without compulsion signed, sealed and delivered the above conveyance passed
between Elias Hodges and ZACHARIAH HENDERSON and I so hereby renounce all title
claim or dower, that I might claim or be entitled to after the death of the
said Elias Hodges, my husband, to or out of the land and tenements herein
conveyed.

In witness where of, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year
first above written.  Her Mark, Mary Hodges

Examined and witnessed by John Moore and Abel G. Loper  [no dates]

Received the day and year first within written of and from the within named
Zachariah Henderson, the sum of one hundred dollars being the consideration
money within mentioned.

I say received in full.  Elias Hodges and Mary Hodges, her mark.
Witness John Moore and Abel L Loper

State of Georgia, Effingham County.  Personally appeared Abel G. Loper who
being duly sworn maketh oath and sayeth that he saw the within indenture signed
sealed for the ? within mentioned and that he and John Moore signed their names
as witnesses.  Abel G. Loper

Sworn to this 19th March, 1806, Curtis Loper, JP

A true copy from the original this 9th Sept. 1806.  J. Neidlinger, C.S.C.E.C.

end of that transaction

the next entry on page 231 recorded immediately after the above is a conveyance
for same property from ZACHARIAH HENDERSON & WIFE to WILLIAM RUSHING,
conveyance of 100 acres land Effingham County, Georgia,...dated 23 November
1802, between Zachariah Henderson of the said state and county of Effingham,
planter, and Elizabath, his wife of the one part and William Rushing
[?illegible as to whether it is sen or jun...I believe sen.].on the other
part...same exact legal as before

Witnessed by SAMUEL THORNTON, his mark, and JOSHUA LOPER, J,S,C. then WILLIAM
RUSHING conveys same to JONATHAN LOPER in 1804.