Georgia:  Hancock County:  Indenture, David & Matthew Averett to
Drury Averett
8 March 1817
====================================================================
USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing
free information on the Internet, data may be used by
non-commercial entities, as long as this message
remains on all copied material. These electronic
pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit
or for presentation by other persons or organizations.

Persons or organizations desiring to use this material
for purposes other than stated above must obtain the
written consent of the file contributor.

The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb
Archives to store this file permanently for free access.
This file was contributed by:
Cline Averett 
averett@innova.net
====================================================================

David & Matthew Averett to Drury Averett

Georgia Hancock County. This indenture made the 8th day of March in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & seventeen & in the 41st year
of American independence. Between David Averett & Matthew Averett admr's of
the Estate & effects of John Averett Dec'd late of the aforesaid County &
State / of the one part and Drury Averett of the same county & state on the
other part witnesseth that the said David & Matthew Averett admr's aforesaid
in consideration of the sum of four hundred to them inn hand paid by the
said Drury Averett the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath sold by
these presents doth bargain sell alien & confirm unto the said Drury Averett
his heirs and assigns all that tract or parcel of land lying and being in
the county & state aforesaid bounded as follows Northwardly by Little
Ogeechy, westwardly by D____ land, eastwardly by Jacob Carter & Amos Hicks
land & Southwardly by Wothern's land. Containing three hundred acres, be the
same more or less it being part of two tracts of land one granted to John
Averett & the other to Richard Worthern, which will appear by a reference to
the same, together with all & singular the rights, members & appurtances
thereunto belonging or in any way appertaining unto the said Drury Averett
his heirs & assigns and the said David & Matthew Averett admr's aforesaid
doth hereby warrant & forever defend the said bargained premises from
themselves, heirs, assigns and all & every person or persons whomsoever in
as full & ample manner as it was held by the aforesaid John Averett dec'd
in his lifetime in fee simple in witness whereof we have hereunto set our
hand and offered our seals the day & date above written.

Executed in presence of } David Averett {SEAL}
Thos Cheely } Matthew Averett {SEAL}
Wm Rachel }
Wm Cureton J. P. } Registered the 5th of July 1820
Phil, L. Simms Clk Supr Court

1 Hancock County, Sparta, Georgia, Clerk of Court Office, Deed Book M, page
296