Georgia:  Wilkes County:  James Sherrer Bond  
2 September 1808
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Charles E. Sherrer
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Copy of Sherrer Bond
Know all men by these present that James Sherrer of the county of Wilkes and 
State of Georgia am held and firmly Bound to pay Charles Duke of Oglethorpe 
County & state aforesaid the sum of eight hundred dollars to be paid his 
heirs or offspring , to which ______ 
I Bind myself my heirs my executor or administrator firmly by these 
testaments, sealed with my seal and dated this 2d day of September 1808.
The condition of the above obligation is such that in the above bond James 
Shearer shall make the aforesaid Charles Duke his heir or _______ good and 
sufficient title to a tract of land containing 180 ½ more or less acres being 
in Wilkes county and on the waters of _______ creek adjoining Steele Welborn 
Hamilton and Gwnm_________ meeting house, then the obligation to be void or 
otherwise to remain in full force __________
(signed) John Todd 
William Murphy NOTE: The corner of this document is torn and no signature of 
James is shown.
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Excerpt from the law suit by Charles Duke
Sometime in December eighteen hundred and fifteen the said James Shearer 
departed this life leaving a will affecting only his personal estate of which 
will, James Rutledge and William Shearer were thence named as executors; and 
leaving living (besides your orator and his wife Mary formerly Mary Shearer) 
Anne Shearer his widow; Eve (otherwise Avis) Steele formerly Eve Shearer the 
wife of William Steele a person who if now is alive is not within the 
jurisdictional limits of this state as you know or believe; William Shearer, 
James Rutledge and wife Susanna formerly Susanna Shearer, John Shearer, Allen 
Mabry and his wife Nancy formerly Nancy Shearer; and Elijah Shearer which 
said Mary, Eve, Susanna, and Nancy were married to their present husbands 
before the decease of the said James Shearer, who as well as the said 
William, John, & Elijah are the children and who together with the said 
William Steel (if is alive) & ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ living
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