SCREVEN COUNTY, GA - DEEDS  Martha Scott, et al to John C. Scott
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Screven County Superior Court, Deeds and Mortgages
Book Y     1881-1882     GDAH 110/54 Page 258

State of Georgia.   

This indenture made on this the 28th day of August
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty
one between Martha Scott, widow of Dennis Scott,
dced. and Martha Ann Scott, Caroline L. Powell wife
of L. K. Powell, Laura J. Poythress wife of D. W.
Poythress,  Mary A. Scott, Frances D. Mills wife of
S. B. Mills, Saphronia A. Reddick wife of Henry
Reddick, William D. Arnett and George S. Arnett,
grandsons of said Dennis Scott and Rosa L. Reddick
wife of P. W. Reddick, and Mattie E. Arnett,
grandaughter of said dced., all of the said parties
of the said family of Screven in state aforesaid of
the first part and John C. Scott of the County of
Chatham and state aforesaid of the second part,
witnesseth that the said parties of the first part
for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred
dollars cash in hand paid them in hand by the said
John C. Scott at and before the sealing and delivery
of these presents (the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged) both bargained sold aliened and
conveyed and by these presents doth bargain sell
alien and convey to the said John C. Scott his heirs
and assigns all that tract of land situate, lying
and being in the said county of Screven and the 34th
district Georgia Militia containing one hundred and
ninety (190) acres more or less adjoining lands of
Mrs. Elizabeth Arnett, dced. and others on the
north, lands of Davant and estate of Jacob H. Mills
on the east, lands of S. B. Mills, H. R. Kenya (?),
Scire Brown on the south, and lands of David Brown,
dced. and others on the west (the tract of land
herein conveyed being the tract of land upon which
the said Dennis Scott was residing at the time of
his death) to have and to hold the said tract of
land to him the said John C. Scott, his heirs and
assigns forever in fee simple with all the rights,
titles, members and appurtenances thereto belonging
or in anywise appertaining to his and their own
proper use benefit and behoof.  The said parties of
the first part, for themselves, their heirs,
administrators and executors the said bargained
tract of land to the said John C. Scott his heirs
and assigns will forever warrant and defend the
right and title thereof, against themselves and the
claims of all other persons in witness whereof the
said parties of the first part hath, the day and
year first above written set their hands and affixed
their seals.
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of
Henry Reddick				Martha Scott
S. B. Mills					Martha A. Scott
						Laura J. Poythress
						Caroline L. Powell
						Mary V. Scott
						Saphronia A. Reddick
						Frances D. Mills
						Rhoda C. Reddick
						Mattie E. Arnett
						G. S. Arnett
						W. D. Arnett
						
Issac Russell, a republic (sic) and a Justice of the
Peace of Chatham County, Georgia, witness to
signatures of G. S. Arnett and W. D. Arnett, this
March the 2nd, 1882.

State of Georgia
Screven County
Personally came before me the undersigned, one of the
Justices of the Peace in and for said county, Henry Reddick,
being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he saw Martha Scott,
Martha A. Scott, Laura J. Poythress, Mary V. Scott, Saphronia
Reddick, Frances D. Mills, Rosa C. Reddick and Mattie E.
Arnett sign seal and deliver the within and foregoing deed for 
the purposes therein mentioned, that deponent subscribed the same
as a witness in their presence and saw S. B. Mills do likewise.
Before me this August 31st, 1881 L. M. Hazelhurst, N. P.34 Dist. G.M.
						Henry Reddick

Recorded March 7th, 1882, D. B. C. Nunnally, Clerk 

Transcribed by John M. Poythress