Franklin County GaArchives Deed.....Thomas Payne Sr. - Hezekiah Terrell February 20 1799
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Written: February 20 1799
Recorded: February 13 1801


Hezekiah Terrell to Thomas Payne Sr., 20 Feb. 1799

[The clerk used the folio method of page numbering:  putting consecutive 
numbers on the left-hand pages and leaving the right-hand pages unnumbered.]

Franklin County, Georgia, Deed Book NN, right-hand page of folio 88:

This Indenture made this twentieth day of February in the year of our lord one 
thousand seven hundred ninety nine & in the twenty third year of American 
Independence Between Hezekiah Terrell Sheriff of the County of Franklin in the 
State of Georgia of the one part and Thomas Payne Sn'r of the County & State 
aforesaid of the other part.  Whereas there was a Judgement obtained in the 
Inferior Court of said County against Leonard Marbury in favour of Thomas 
Payne, and fier facias issued on the twenty eighth day of November one 
thousand seven hundred ninety eight against said Marbury, & the same being 
executed was levied on the following tract of land (to wit) two hundred eighty 
seven & an half Acres of land in said County of Franklin lying on Toogaloe 
River known by the name of Eastatoa old fields, granted to said Leonard 
Marbury by his excellency S. Elbert, and was agreeable to Law advertised on 
the first Tuesday in February 

[left-hand page of folio 89]

instant exposed to publick sale & the same was struck off to the said Thomas 
Payne for the sum of fifteen Dollars, said tract of land assertained By 
Courses & Distances as follows, Beginning at a Spanish oak corner on the River 
running thence South forty five West fifty chains to a red oak corner thence 
North thirty five West sixty one chains to a post oak corner on the said River 
bounded on the South West by Elijah Isaacs & on the North West by Vacant land 
at the time of Survey.  Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said Hezekiah 
Terrell hath for the sum aforesaid sold unto the said Thomas Payne all that 
tract or parcel of land aforesaid & the said Hezekiah Terrell as Sheriff for 
the County of Franklin sells & conveys unto him the said Thomas Payne & to his 
heirs & assigns forever the premisses before mentioned to have & to hold use 
occupy and enjoy  In Witness Whereof the said Hezekiah 

[right-hand page of folio 89]

Terrell Sheriff as aforesaid hath hereunto set his hand & affixed his seal the 
day & year first written 
Signed Sealed & Delivered   )        H. Terrell   (seal) 
in presence of              )
Jas Terrell J.P.            )       Recorded
Mosses Payne J.P.           )       13th February 1801


[The name of the witness, Moses Payne, usually appears with one "s" following 
the "o" not the two written here by the clerk.]


Submitted by:  Robert W. ("Bob") Meadows 
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