Jones County GaArchives Deed.....Gardner, Leonidas B. - May, Levi P. September 22, 1849
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Part of Lot 7, part of Lot 8 & part of Fraction Lot 3, First District
Written: September 22, 1849
Recorded: October 16, 1856

Jones County, Georgia		
Deed Book S, pages 143-144

Levi P. May to Leonidas B. Gardner
Georgia
Jones County
This Indenture made this the twenty second day of September one thousand Eight 
hundred and forty nine between Levi P. May of the county aforesaid and State 
of Georgia of the one part and Leonidas B. Gardner of the same place of the 
other part.  Witnesseth that the said L. P. May in and for the sum of Six 
Hundred and Fifty dollars to him in hand paid at and before the sealing and 
delivery of these presents the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged hath 
granted bargained and sold and conveyed and confirmed and doth by these 
presents, doth grant bargain and sell and confirm unto the said L. B. Gardner 
his heirs and assigns all that tract or parcel of Land lying and being and 
situate in the first district Originally Baldwin now Jones County and State 
aforesaid known and distinguished in the plan of said district as portion of 
lot number seven (7) portion of lot No. Eight (8) portion of Fraction No. 
Three (3) the whole containing Two hundred two and a half acres more or less 
adjoining lands of James A. [illegible] and James Wilkinson and Miss ?Ready 
and others and on the South ?West by the old beginning line and on the North 
West by the ????? Land on the dividing line ???   ??? Line on the North East 
the ????  ????? South east.  To have and to hold the said bargained premises 
unto the said L. B. Gardner his heirs and assigns together with all and 
singular the appurtenances, thereunto belonging, to him and to his own proper 
benefit and behoof for ever in fee simple, and the said Levi P. May for 
himself, Executors, and administrators, the said bargained premises unto the 
said L. B. Gardner his heirs and assigns will warrant and forever defend the 
right and title thereof against himself and against any other person 
whomsoever.  In testimony whereof the said Levi P. May hath hereunto set his 
hand and affixed his seal the day and Year first above written.
Levi P. May (L. S.)
Test	James A. Shores
	Horatio May
Georgia
Jones County
Personally came before me Horatio May who being duly sworn deposeth and says 
that he saw L. B. Gardner [should be L. P. May] sign, seal and deliver the 
within Deed for the purposes therein mentioned, and that the deponent 
subscribed the same as a witness and saw James A. Shores do so likewise.   
Horatio May
Sworn to and Subscribed
Before me this the ?1st
April 1153 [sic]
Thos. L. Burden J. P.

Recorded 16th Oct 1856
Charles Macarthy 
Clerk S. C.


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Note:  This deed was difficult to read because the microfilmed image was faint 
to begin with and has a streak across the second line of text at the top of 
each page, as well as being a very left-slanting handwriting.

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