Jones-Jefferson County GaArchives Deed.....May, Wiley - Berryhill, Susannah January 5, 1818 ************************************************ 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: Linda Deppner http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002870 March 10, 2007, 12:04 am Part of Lot 73, Twelfth District Written: January 5, 1818 Recorded: February 28, 1822 Jones County, Georgia Deed Book M, pages 27-28 State of Georgia Whereas Susannah Berryhill died Seized & poss[ess]ed of a fee Simple title to one third of a tract of land lying & being in the twelfth district lot 73 Baldwin now Jones County & whereas Thos. Berryhill & Andrew Berryhill entered into a Bond for said Susannah Berryhill to make title to said land to Wiley May and whereas said Susannah Berryhill departed this life and having received the purchase money for said land & failed to execute title to the same and whereas the Honorable the Court of Ordinary of the County of Jefferson at January Term in the year of Christ Eighteen Hundred & Eighteen passed an Order for Alexander Merriweather and Josiah Scrutchins adm'rs on the Estate of said Susannah Berryhill deceased to make title to said one third of said lot ????? Indenture witnesseth that said Alexander Merriweather & Josiah Scrutchins Adm'rs of said Susannah Berryhill deceased for and in consideration of the sum of Two Hundred dollars paid to said Susannah Berryhill in her life time and by Virtue of the power invested and of an Order of the Honorable the Court of Ordinary of Jefferson County passed at January term in the year of Christ Eighteen Hundred and Eighteen Have bargained & Sold & by these presents do bargain & sell Unto Wyle May his heirs & assigns forever All the right & title which said Susannah Berryhill poss[ess]ed in her life time to said one third part of a tract of land lying in the Twelfth district of Baldwin Now Jones County Number Seventy three in said district being the one third part of said land Unto Wyle May his heirs & assigns forever Against the said Alexander Merriweather and Josiah Scrutchins administrators as aforesaid & also against the right heirs of said Susannah Berryhill shall & will forever warrant & Defend Unto said Wyle Maye his heirs & assigns forever By these presents. In Witness whereof the said Alexander Merriweather & Josiah Scrutchins administrators as aforesaid have hereunto set their hands & seals This fifth day of January in the Year of Christ Eighteen Hundred & Eighteen. Alex'd Merriweather (L. S.) Josiah Scrutchins (L.S.) Adm'rs In the presence of John Shly G. Stapleton J. P. Recorded the 28th February 1822 Edwin Bowen C. S. C. Additional Comments: FHL film #0470017 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/jones/deeds/berryhil765gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb