Georgia:  Oglethorpe County: Indenture,  Nathan Atkinson to Joseph 
Catching, 17 July 1794

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State of Georgia       ))           This Indenture made this 
fourteenth Day of July 
Oglethorpe County ))     one thousand Seven Hundred & ninety four  
Between Nathan Atkinson of the County & State aforesaid of the One 
part and Joseph Catching of the County and State aforesaid of the 
Other Parts  Witnesseth that the said Nathan Atkinson For and in 
Consideration of the Sum of fifty five pounds Sterling money to him 
in hand well and Truly paid by the said Joseph Catching at on before 
the sealing and Delivery of these presents the receipts whereof is 
hereby Acknowledged hath Granted bargained sold acknowledged and 
Confirmed by these presents do Grant Bargain Seal Release and 
Confirm unto the said Joseph Catching his Heirs and assigns a 
certain Tract or parcel of Lands Containing One hundred and four 
Acres be the same more or Less situated Lying and being in the 
County of Oglethorpe on the Waters of Little River Beginning at a 
post Oak Corner Running N. sixty nine Degrees West Twenty chains to 
a post Oak on said Catching Line thence north thirty East Seven 
Chains fifty Links to a Buck Eye Corner thence north sixty seven 
west Five Chains to a pine Corner thence south Eight Degrees West 
thirty Chains  to a post Oak Corner thence south sixty three East 
thirteen Chains to a post Oak Corner on Catchings Land thence to the 
Beginning it Being parts of a tract of Land Containing four hundred 
and ninety Acres Granted to said Nathan Atkinson Together with all 
and singular the rights Membors and Apparatuses thereof whatsoever 
to the said Tract of Land Belonging or in any wise appertaining and 
the remainders ___vasions  ___ents issues   Rights thereof and of 
every part thereof   To have and to hold the said Tract or parcel of 
Lands and all and singular the premises and appurtenants there unto 
belonging as aforesaid and every part thereof unto the said Joseph 
Catching his heirs and assigns to the only proper use Benefit and 
behoove of the said Joseph Catching his heirs and assigns forever 
and the said Nathan Atkinson & his heirs the said Tract of Land & 
premises aforesaid and every part thereof unto the said Joseph 
Catching his heirs and assigns against him the said Nathan Atkinson 
and his heirs and all and every other person or persons Whatsoever 
shall and will warrant and forever defend by these present.   In 
Witness Whereof the said Nathan Atkinson hath here unto set his hand 
and Seal the Day and Year first above Written.
Witnesses                                                   Nathan  
                                               (his mark) Atkinson
Alexander Andrews     [the mark resembles a lop-sided square       
John Cargile Jun         with a diagonal line, and tiny feet at the 
Zachariah Thompson                          bottom] 

                                     This is to certify that 
Alexander Andrews one of the subscribing witnesses made oath that 
Nathan Atkinson acknowledged the above Oaths that he saw John 
Cargile Junr subscribe as a witness
Sworn to before me this 16th day of April 1796.
                                    Meschal Whatley J.J.C

Ref:  Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Deed Bookj A, pp. 281-282.


(Contributed by Barbara Walker Winge,   barbarawinge@yahoo.com)