Upson County GaArchives Deed.....Ward, Uretha White - White, Reuben 1841
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Assigned To: Gift Slave
Written: 1841

Reuben White gives slave girl to Uretha White Ward
February 17, 1841
Upson County, Georgia

Document 10
To whom it may concern:

	Know all men by these presents that I, Reuben White of the county and state
aforesaid and in consideration of the natural love and affection I have and bear
towards my daughter, Uretha Ward, wife of Richard M. Ward now a citizen of
Chambers County, Alabama and for the sum of one dollar to one in hand paid by
the said Uretha at and before the signing and delivery of the presents the
receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have given, granted and conveyed and do
by these presents give, grant, and convey unto the said Uretha Ward, wife of the
said Richard M. Ward and the legal heirs of her body, but to and for her own use
and benefit a negro (sic) girl slave named Edney about eight years old now in
the possession of my said daughter to and for her use and benefit during her
natural life, and at her death to go to the said legal heirs of her body, nad it
is hereby expressly conveyed for her said use as aforesaid and to be in the way
and manner subject it to the debts of the said Richard M. Ward, nor to be sold
or disposed of by him; in this gift and conveyance of said negro (sic) girl by
me to be for the use and benefit of my said daughter during her life-time and to
enjoy and to receive the benefit of the services of said girl, Edney and at her
death to go to the legal heirs of her body as aforesaid.  And I hereby warrant
and defend the title of said negro (sic) girl to my said daughter and her heirs
in manner and form as aforesaid forever.
	In testimony of which I have hereunto at my hand and seal this seventeenth day
of September eighteen hundred and forty-one.

Rueben White

Executed in presence of us
	William W. Warde
	L. M. Gatlin

Registered 18th September 1841
P.E. Bowdre, clerk

	





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