Muscogee-Harris County GaArchives Deed.....Banking Company, Chattahoochee Rail Road & - Pool, William W. August 30, 1838
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Dist. 8, Lots 36 & 45; Dist. 19, Lots 193, 194, 199, & 200
Written: August 30, 1838
Recorded: November 8, 1838

William W. POOL To the Chattahoochee Rail Road & Banking Company // Georgia, 
Muscogee County // This Indenture made this thirtieth day of August in the 
year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight between William W. POOL of 
the county [of] Muscogee and State of Georgia, of the first part, and the 
Chattahoochee Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia, of the second part.  
Witnesseth that the said William W. POOL hereby covenants for himself, his 
heirs, executors and administrators to pay to the Chattahoochee  Rail Road and 
Banking Company of Georgia, or to its assigns, the sum of seven Thousand five 
hundred Dollars, on the first day of December in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and forty eight.  Now for and in consideration of the 
sum of Five Dollars, in hand paid by the Chattahoochee Rail Road and Banking 
Company of Georgia, the said William W. POOL hath granted, bargained, sold, 
and conveyed, and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell and convey to 
the said Chattahoochee Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia, and its 
assigns, the following described premises to wit: All those tracts or parcels 
of land lying situate and being in the Eight[h land] district of the County of 
Muscogee & State aforesaid, Known and distinguished in the plan of said 
district by being lots numbers Thirty six (36) and Forty five (45) containing 
202½ acres each, also that settlement of land lying situate being in the 
Counties of Harris & Muscogee known and distinguished in the plan of the 
Nineteenth district by being lots numbers Two hundred (200) containing 202½ 
acres, the west half of lot number one hundred ninety nine (199) containing 
101¼ acres, the south half of lot number one hundred and ninety four (194) 
containing 101¼ acres, also seventy acres of the south half of No. one hundred 
and ninety three (193) commencing on the west line at the west of sixty five 
acres, & running due east to the creek, there [sic – thence] up said creek 
within thirty yards of the old Mill house at the extreme north bend of the 
Creek, then due east course to the line dividing one hundred and ninety three 
and one hundred and ninety four including a Mill Shoal yard, and excepting one 
quarter acre, including a burying ground.  To have and to hold said bargained 
premises, to the said Chattahoochee Rail Road and Banking Company and its 
assigns to said company and its assigns own proper use, benefit and behoof 
forever.  And the said Wm. W. POOL for himself, his heirs, executors and 
administrators shall well and do truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said 
Chattahoochee Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia, or its assigns, the 
aforementioned sum of money at the time mentioned and appointed for the 
payment thereof in the covenant herein contained with interest for the same 
according to the tenor and effect of said covenant then and from thenceforth 
as well, this indenture and the right to the property thereby conveyed as the 
said covenant shall cease, determine and be void to all intents and purposes. 
In testimony whereof the said William W. POOL hath hereunto set his hand and 
seal, on the day and year first above written.  W. W. POOL {L[egal] S
[ignature]} / Signed, Sealed and delivered in presence of Wiley WILLIAMS // 
Allen G. BASS, Notary Public (Recorded 8th day of November 1838.)  [Muscogee 
County, Georgia, Deed Book H(1), pp. 447-48.  The tract in Land District 19 
straddles the Muscogee-Harris county line, encompassing the crossroads that 
was the old center of the Fortson community.  The mortgage does not specify in 
which land lot the excepted quarter-acre burying ground is situated.  William 
W. POOL married Mary McCRARY, said to be daughter of Robert Edward & Grace 
Teresa (RODGERS) POOL.  William & Mary later removed to Lowndes County, 
Mississippi. - jml]

Additional Comments:
Mortgage recorded in Muscogee County, Georgia, Deed Book H(1), pp. 447-48.  
The tract in Land District 19 straddles the Muscogee-Harris county line, 
encompassing the crossroads that was the old center of the Fortson community.  
The mortgage does not specify in which land lot the excepted quarter-acre 
burying ground is situated.  William W. POOL married Mary McCRARY, said to be 
daughter of Robert Edward & Grace Teresa (RODGERS) McCRARY.  William & Mary 
later removed to Lowndes County, Mississippi. - jml]

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