DEED: Hodson to Bates, 1840 - Owen County, KY

Deed and Mortgage Indenture
from Hodson to Bates
transcribed from Owen County, Kentucky Deed Book G, page 104

This indenture made this 31st day of July in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty between John B. Hodson of the county of
Owen and state of Kentucky of the one part and John C. Bates of the
county of Franklin and state aforesaid of the other part witnesseth the
said John B. Hodson for and in consideration of one dollar and the
consideration hereinafter mentioned in hand paid the receipt whereof is
hereby acknowledged hath granted bargained and sold and by these
presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said John C. Bates his
heirs and assigns forever all that tract or parcel of land situated and
in the county of Owen and state aforesaid and bounded as follows to wit:
beginning at three small hickory saplins standing on the north side of
Clarks branch thence north 158 poles to two beeches and sugartree thence
east 185 poles crossing Cedar Creek to three sugartrees thence south 30
poles to two ironwoods standing on the bank of Cedar Creek thence down
the same 72 west 94 poles to two small sycamores thence across the creek
to the mouth of Clarks branch and with the meanders of the same south 10
west 20 poles, south 40 west 25 poles, south 31 west 50 poles, south 49
west 34 poles, south 80 west 20 poles to the beginning containing
ninety-eight acres one rood and thirty five poles also the following
property to wit: one bay mare five years old, one two year old roan
colt, 1 black one year old colt, one bay (suckling?) colt, twenty head
of sheep, one two year old steer and red milch cow, two beds and
furniture, one (ca--?) and two shovel ploughs, two tables, one bureau,
one cupboard and eight head of hogs together with all and singular the
appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appurtaining to have
and to hold the land and personal property hereby conveyed with the
appurtenances unto the said John C. Bates his heirs or assigns forever.
And the said John B. Hodson for himself his heirs executors and
administrators the aforesaid tract of land and appurtenances conveyed
unto the said John C. Bates his heirs and assigns against the claim or
claims of all and every person or persons whatsoever do and will forever
warrant and defend by these presents promised that the grantor is
indebted to the grantee in the sum of three hundred and forty (?) one
dollars and seventy five cents due on the 21st day of July 1840 as will
appear by note bearing that date and if he shall on or before the first
day of April next or any person for him well and truly pay said sum of
money with interest agreeable to the demand thereof then this indenture
to cease and be of no effect otherwise to remain in full force and
virtue in witness whereof the said John B. Hodson hath hereunto set his
hand and seal the day and date first above written.

     Nathan Haster                      John B. Hodson (seal)
     Thomas M. Claxon
                                                                                                                        
Kentucky, Owen County Court
     I. N.M. Bacon Clerk of the Court for the county aforesaid do certify
that this deed of mortgage from John B. Hodson to John C. Bates was
produced to me in my office in Owenton on the 31st day of July 1840 and
was proven by the oaths of Nathan Haster and Thomas M. Claxon witnesses
thereunto to be the act and deed of said Hodson. Given under my hand the
date above.
          
                                        N.M. Bacon, Clerk
                                   by   James Ford, D.C.


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