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Bath County, Kentucky, Deed Abstracts and Transcriptions

Book A (1811-1816)(FHL Film # 272981)

p. 104	This Indenture made this 30th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve 
Between James French of the County of Montgomery and State of Kentucky of the one part and Raney Chastain of the County of 
Buckingham and State of Virginia of the other part Witnesseth that whereas there is an interference of Land claims of the 
parties aforesaid on Slate Creek in the County of Bath in the state aforesaid of Kentucky does exist and a suit having been 
prosecuted for some time in the Circuit Court of the aforesaid County of Montgomery and the parties having compromised for 
the aforesaid interference the aforesaid James French in pursuance of the aforesaid compromise with Thomas Moseby attorney 
in fact for said Raney Chastain and for and in consideration of one dollar in hand paid the aforesaid James French hath 
bargained and sold and conveyed by way of quit claim and by these presents doth bargain sell and convey by way of quit 
claim unto the said Raney Chastain his heirs and assigns forever all the estate right and title of him the aforesaid James
French in and to the land contained within the aforesaid interference so far as he has title by deed of conveyance from 
James Garrard for one half of 5,000 acres patented in the name of the said James Garrard on the 20th day of August in the 
year 1786 containing three hundred and twenty two acres be the same more or less and bounded as followeth (to wit) beginning 
at an ash and Hackberry and sugar tree Northwest corner to a tract of 600 acres of the said Chastain, thence South 317 poles 
to two buckeyes and betty tree in the line of James Patty, thence with said Patty’s line Eastwardly 162 poles to the line 
of the said Garrard’s original line of survey, thence with his line North to a stake in the line of said Chastain, thence 
with his line to the Beginning To have and to hold the aforesaid interference parcel of land with its appurtenances unto 
the said Raney Chastain his heirs and assigns forever and the aforesaid James French doth by these presents warrant and 
will forever defend the parcel of land aforesaid with its appurtenances unto the said Raney Chastain his heirs and assigns 
forever against him the aforesaid James French and his heirs and against all persons claiming under him the aforesaid James
French but from nor against no other person or claim whatsoever whether already known or hereafter may become known to 
interfere or conflict with the parcel of 
land aforesaid.  And the said Raney Chastain by his aforesaid attorney hereby declares himself fully satisfied and content 
with the compromise aforesaid and to take the title of the aforesaid James French at all chances and by way of quit 
claim as aforesaid and does hereby release the aforesaid James French and his heirs from claim or demand for or on 
account of said land should the same be lost or taken away and this deed is not intended to run into the land of James 
Patty but to bind on his northern boundary.  In testimony whereof the aforesaid James French has hereunto set his hand 
and affixed his seal the day and year first above written.  James French.  Atteste Martin Chastain, Joseph Carter, James 
Ragland
	
Bath County Clerks Office, April the 7th 1812
This Indenture of Bargain and sale from James French to Raney Chastain was acknowledged before me by the said James 
French to be his act and deed and thereupon is admitted to record.  Thomas Fletcher, CBC