Georgia:  Hancock County:  Indenture: Solomon Averitt, Mary Everitt and 
Albrite Averitt to George Rachell 
29 November 1828

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Georgia Hancock County

This indenture made this the twenty ninth day of November,
in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
twenty eight between Solomon Averitt, Mary Everitt and
Albrite Averitt of the County of Hancock and the State of
Georgia of the one part and George Rachell of the County of
Hancock and the State of Georgia of the other part,
witnesseth that said Solomon Averitt, Mary Averitt, &
Averitt for, and in consideration of the sum of four hundred
dollars to them in hand at and before the sealing and
delivery of these presents, the receipt of whereof is hereby
acknowledged, ha_ granted, bargained, sold and convey unto
said George Rachell his heirs and assigns all that tract or
parcel of land situate, lying and being in the county and
state aforesaid on Williams Creek bounded on the North and
West by Vinson and on the South and East by said Rachell and
. . . . .Beginning at a sweet gum (originally post oak) on a
branch and running 16 chains and fifty links to a black oak
tree thence South thirty minutes west fourteen chain and
fifty links to a pine thence North eighty seven degrees
forty five minutes, forty chains to a pine, thence North two
degrees fifteen minutes east, thirty two chains to a red oak
line tree thence North thirty minutes east, twenty two
chains to a new marked sweet gum on the creek , at the head
of the mill pond, thence down the northern bank of said mill
pond to a post oak, then south one chain and fifty links to
the creek thence down the meanders of said creek to a white
oak, thence south seventy five degrees east, three chains
and fifty links to a popular, thence thirty three and half
degrees to a sweet gum, sixteen chains, thence south seven
chains and forty links to a red oak on a branch, thence up
the meanders of said branch to the beginning sweet gum. - To
have and to hold said tract or parcel of land to him the
said George Rachell his heirs and assigns together with all
and singular the rights, members and appurtances thereof, to
the same in any belonging to his and their own proper use,
benefit and behoof? forever, as a good indefeasible estate
in fee simple -------And the said Solomon Averitt, Mary
Averitt and Albrite Averett for their heirs, executors and
administrators, the said bargained premises, unto the said
George Rachell his heirs, assigns, will warrant, and forever
defend the right and title thereof against themselves and
against the claims of all other persons whatever__In witness
thereof the said Solomon Averitt, Mary Averitt and Albrite
Averett hath herewith set their hands and seals, the day and
year above written, the words forty chains intertined?
before signed.

Signed, sealed and delivered
 Solomon Averitt (Seal}
 Mary + Averitt (Mark) (Seal)
Albret Averitt (Seal)

In the presence of

Burwell + Rachel Her Mark
[NOTE: Rachel is the surname, and this should probably read "his"]

Wm Rachel J. P. 


Registered the 16th day of January 1829

Abram Alfriend Clk Sup Court


1 Hancock County, Sparta, Georgia, Clerk of Court Office, Deed Book N,
453-454