Clark County IN Archives Deed.....Christopher, Fifer - Swan, John, Jackson, John, March 4, 1799
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Anne Livingston kybullittanne@yahoo.com November 15, 2007, 4:22 pm

Ohio River
Written: March 4, 1799
Recorded: February 21, 1801

4 Mar 1799 John JACKSON Junr. and Elizabeth his wife of Jefferson County and 
State of Kentucky and  John SWAN of Scott County and the state aforesaid of 
the one part and Christopher FIFER of Jefferson County and said State of the 
other part... for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars to 
them in hand paid have given granted bargained and sold one hundred acres 
lying and being on the North west side of the Ohio River within the grant made 
by the Commonwealth of Virginia to the Illinois Regiment commonly called the 
Illinois grant being part of a two hundred acre survey number one hundred 
allowed by the commissioners to John Swan and bounded as followeth:  


begining at D. R. a buckeye hickory and sugar tree the west corner of No. 100 
and north corner of William HARROD's survey No. 99 running thence north fifty 
degrees east one hundred thirty three and one third poles to two small blue 
ash trees and Iron wood corner to John OWEN thence with Owens's line south 
forty degrees east one hundred and twenty poles to a Lynn (?) and two sugar 
trees corner to James ABBOTTs thence with Abbotts line South fifty degrees 
west one hundred thirty three and one third poles to a sugar tree and Buckeye 
Abbotts corner in the original line of the said No. 100 thence with the said 
original line to the east line of William Harrod's survey No. 99 aforesaid 
north forty degrees west one hundred and twenty poles to the Begining with its 
appertenances.

And the said John Jackson Junior, Elizabeth his wife and John Swan do farther 
covenant and agree to and with the said Christopher Fifer his Heirs and 
assigns that whereas a mortgage for the land here in conveyed has been 
executed by the said Jackson and recorded in Scott Court and in consequence of 
the aforesaid payment of the two hundred dollars by the said Christopher the 
said mortgage is fully satisfied.

(signed) 
John Jackson Junr.
Elizabeth Jackson
John Swan

in the presence of 
Rich'd Terrell
W. (or Wm?) Harris
Jonathan Thomas
Jno. Owens.

5 Mar 1799 the within deed was acknowledged in Jefferson Co. Kentucky

21 Feb 1801 recorded in Clark Co. Indiana


Abstracted by Anne Livingston from Clark Co. Deed Book 1 p. 1

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