Deeds: Morgan County Thomas King to Jefse King ======================================================================= 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: Carolyn L. Harper Johnson Clhjohnson@aol.com Georgia} This Indenture made this seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & twenty three between Thomas King of said county & state of one part & Jefse King of Oglethorpe County in said state of the other part. Witnefseth that the said Thomas King for & in consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars to him in hand will & truly paid by the said Jefse the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted bargained & sold & by these presents doth grant bargain sell convey & confirm unto the said Jefse King all that parcel or lot of land situate in Morgan County containing by estimation fifteen acres bounded as follows beginning at a red oak N E Butlers line running south 11 east 9 chains & 40 links to poast oak thence south 50 east 5 chains 50 links to chesnut post thence north 40 east 14 chains 52 links to chesnut poast thence north 30 west 9 chains 20 links to chessnut post thence south 61 west 9 chains 20 links to the beginning red oak containing as aforesaid fifteen acres be the same more of lefs. To have & to hold the same together with all & singular the rights members & appertenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining to him the said Jefse King his heirs & afsigns to me & the said Thomas King do for myself my heirs & afsigns warrant & will forever defend the title of the aforesaid described land & premises to him the said Jefse King his ____ forever in fee simple. For which I bind myself my heirs executors administrators afsigns to warranty the same from the claim or claims of every other person or persons whomsoever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the date first above written. Signed sealed & acknowledged in presence Thos. King Of S. Shirlay Rod Lenard J.P. Recorded 19 May 1823 John Nisbet clk