Jones County Georgia Deed Gibson Clark to John Martin & Gustaves Hendrick (Debt) File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by DaisyZ@aol.com Jeanie Smith Zadach Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/jones.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm FHL Microfilm #0470017 Book N, Page 121 Deed to Secure Debt January 11, 1825 Georgia Jones County Whereas I have then sold & delivered my tract of land consisting of all my plantation & land whereon I now reside in the County of Jones and State of Georgia and all my horses mules cattle hogs and all my plantation tools utensils & materials of said plantation for a valuable consideration to me hand paid by John Martin & Gustaves Hendrick of said County to them the said John and Gustaves and whereas the said John and Gustaves have this day also endorsed a note payable by me to them in the Branch Bank of Darien at Milledgeville for Fifteen Hundred dollars for my accommodation & have agreed to permit me to remain in possession of the premises aforesaid & to use the materials of said plantation for the purpose of making a crop. I do hereby agree and bind myself to permit and to absolutely grant unto the said John & Gustaves the absolute right title & privilege of selling & disposing of the crop which I shall or may make the following season (to wit the year 1825) on the aforesaid premises for the purpose of paying off & discharging the aforesaid note interest & whatever cost and charges may accrue in & about the same provided. I shall & should next pay off & discharge the same myself before or by the time the said crop is gathered which is to be done as soon as possible. But in case I should pay off said note interest cost & charges & save them the said John and Gustaves wholly harmless from eventual liabilities on their said endorsement & reserved continued endorsements on said note before the said crop is gathered or at that time, then the above is to be void otherwise remain in full force & virtue. Witness my hand & seal this 11th January in the year 1825. Test E.C. Mounger Gibson Clark {Seal} David Walker