TAYLOR COUNTY, GA - DEEDS  Nathaniel Spears (Sheriff's sale Benjamin Wilson - Walton Co.)

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13th Dis LL111

Land purchase 1855
Taylor County, Georgia, Deed book A, pg. 465-466

(Photocopies of original document in possession of Valesca Spears McMillian)

State of Georgia) 
Taylor County)           

Whereas in obedience to a writ of mortgage execution
issued out of the court of Walton  County as the
suit of Jonah A. Clarke against Benjamin Wilson,
James Layfield, Sheriff of the county of Taylor did
publicly seize the following land hereinafter
described as the property of the said Benjamin
Wilson and after being advertised agreeable to law
and on the fourth of September in the year one
thousand eight hundred and fifty five at the place
of public sale in the said county, expose the same
at public outcry when Nathaniel Spears being the
highest bidder the same was knocked off to him at
the price or sum of ten dollars.  Now this indenture
made this the fourth day of September in the year of
our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty five
between the said James Layfield, Sheriff, as of one
side of the one part and the said Nathaniel Spears
of the other part.  Witnesseth that the said James
Mayfield, Sheriff as aforesaid for and in
consideration of the sum of ten dollars to him in
hand paid by the said Nathaniel Spears at and before
the sealing & delivery of these presents and the
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted,
bargained, sold and by these presents doth grant
bargain and sell so far as the office of Sheriff
authorizes him, unto the said Nathaniel Spears, his
heirs and assigns all that tract or parcel of land
lying and being in the thirteenth district of
originally Muscogee but now Taylor County, known and
distinguished by the number one hundred and eleven
(111) containing two hundred two and a half acres
more or less, together with all and singular the
rights, members and appurtenances thereof, unto the
said lot of land thereto belonging, or in anywise
appertaining  and also all the right title interest
properly claim and demand of the said Benjamin
Wilson in low equity or otherwise whatsoever if in a
__________.

          To have and to hold the said lot of land
and premises and every part thereof unto the said
Nathaniel Spears his heirs and assigns to the only
proper use, benefit and behalf of the said, his
heirs and assigns in as full and ample a manner as
the said Benjamin Wilson, his heirs and assigns and
as might have been said here, and enjoyed the same
had it not been seized and __________ the execution
aforesaid.  In witness whereof the said James
Layfield, Sheriff hath hereunto set his hand and
affixed his seal the day and year first above
written.  

Signed, sealed and delivered in present of.

C. Joshua Tenison
Isaac Mulkey
                                                          James Layfield, Sheriff

 Recorded on the 18th day of September 1855, John McCants, clerk.