DEED: Noah Lee & Edward Ballard, 1826, Madison Co., KY
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 
From: jimcarp@oneworld.owt.com (Martina Carpenter)
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Land Record
Madison County, Kentucky
Noah Lee/Edward Ballard
Deed Book R
1825-1828
Page 251
FHC Film #0183291



This Indenture made this 6th day of Sept anno domino 1826 between Noah G Lee
and Sally his wife of the County of Madison and State of Kentucky on the one
part and Edward Ballard on the County and State aforesaid of the other part.
Witnesseth that the said Noah G. Lee and Sally his wife for and in
consideration of the sum of fourteen hundred dollars in gold or silver to
them in hand paid the receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge hath
granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant bargain and sell
unto the said Edward Ballard and his heirs forever a certain tract or parcel
of land situate lying in the aforesaid county of Madison on the Walnut
Meadow fork of Paint Lick creek and bounded as follows to wit:  Beginning at
a box Elder ash and black walnut thence East at 126 poles ____ Bernard
Franklin elm and hickory corner in all 227 ½ poles to a white oak tree
thence South 210 poles to a white oak, thence N53 W 45 ½ poles to the spring
thence down the spring branch West 17 poles N31W 49 ½ poles N58W 29 poles to
a stake in the old line, thence with ____ land South [?] 94 ½ poles to two
black oaks thence West 86 poles to a sugar tree thence N5E 15 poles to a
____ corned to Edward Stephenson's thence with Stephenson's line N 85 W 53
poles to a hickory and white oak and two buckeyes on the Creek thence down
the creek as it meanders on William Titus [?] line to the Beginning,
Containing two hundred and twenty one acres including the place where the
said Lee now lives, also the ____ said Lee purchased of the said Barnard
Franklin with the appurtenances and premises above mentioned and Every part
thereof.  To have and to Hold the aforesaid tract or parcel of land with the
appurtenances and premises above mentioned and Every part thereof unto the
said Edward Ballard and his heirs forever, and them the said Noah Lee and
Sally his wife for themselves their heirs Executors and administrators the
lands hereby conveyed against themselves their heirs, Executors and
administrators and against all and every other person and persons whatever
shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents.  In Testimony
whereof we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this day and
year first above written.

Signed Sealed and ___ In presence of        Noah Lee (seal)
                        Sally Lee (seal)

Kentucky Madison County

I, David Irvine, Clerk of the Court for the County aforesaid do hereby
certify that this deed was produced to me in my office on the 6th day of
Sept 1826 and acknowledge by Noah Lee and Sally his wife to be their act and
deed and having first Explained the contents of said deed to her the said
Sally and having privately examined her separate and apart from her said
husband as the law directs she freely and voluntarily relinquished all her
right and title to the land hereby conveyed and the same has been duly
recorded in my office.

                        Att     David Irvine


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