POWER OF ATTORNEY: James, Thomas, & Margaret Bell, Elizabeth Lee, Adam Rankin, Nathan Anderson to 
Charles Bell, Henderson County, 1805

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 
Transcribed & Donated by: Martina Carpenter <MartinaCarpenter@webbworks.com>
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Power of Attorney
Elizabeth Lee
Henderson County. KY
Deed Book A
Page 395
FHC #0572572

Know all men by these presents that we, James Bell, Thomas Bell, Elizabeth Lee, Adam Rankin and Ann his 
wife, Margaret Bell and Nathan L. Anderson and Mi1dred his wife all of the State of Kentucky do hereby 
_______ ordain and appoint our trusty friend Charles Bell the County of Orange and State of 
Virginia our true and lawful attorney in fact for us and in our behalf to sell and dispose of all the 
right, title and interest which we claim in and to a certain tract of land in the County of Lancaster 
and State of Virginia formerly the property of Charles Bell deceased and which was devised to us
by the last will and testament of Thomas Bell dec'd hereby vesting our said Attorney with full and 
compleat powers to convey to the purchaser the said tract of land in fee simple as amply and fully as 
we ourselves could do were we personally present and to receive payment therefore and grant receipt 
against us for the same, And whereas there are Sundry Negroes belonging to the Estate of the said 
Charles Bell which will vest in us on the demise of his widow and relief and we being desirous to 
dispose of our interest in said Slaves do hereby authorise and empower our said attorney to sell and
convey all our right and interest to the Slaves and _______ the personal estate of the same Charles 
Bell dec'd to which we may or may hereafter have any kind of claim hereby ratifying, approving and 
confirming all and every act and acts which our said attorney shall do in the foregoing promise as
 witness our hand _______ seals this 14th day of August 1805.

Witness 
John Holloway as to Margaret  Ann Rankin LS James Bell
Bell, Ann Rankin, Mildred Anderson  Thos Bell LS  ____ ____
____ d. Gun_____ same   N L Anderson LS ____ ____
         ____ ____