DEED - JOHN RAINS TO LABAN THOMAS

Transcribed and submitted by:
Peggy J. Horton
wphor@sbcglobal.net
                                                       
Itawamba County, Mississippi
Deed Records - Book 8, page 182

This Indenture made and entered into this the twenty-
thired day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty
between JOHN RAINS and UNITY RAINS his wife of the first
part and LABAN THOMAS of the second part all of the State
of Mississippi and County of Itawamba witnesseth that for
and in consideration of the sum of one hundred fifty 
dollars to us the said JOHN and UNITY RAINS in hand 
recept [sic] whereof is hereof is hereby acknowledged
have this day Bargained Sold in fee of and by these 
presents doeth bargain sell and convey unto the said 
LABAN THOMAS a certain tract or parcel of land to wit
the West half of the north east quarter of Section Nine
in Township Seven Range Six East containing Eighty acres
it lying and being in the State and County afforesaid
[sic] the same to have and to hold the above described
parcel of Land together with all the woods ways and
appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise
appertaining to the only proper of him the said LABAN
THOMAS his heirs and assigns forever and we the said 
party of the first part for ourselves our heirs and
assigns doth warrant and defend the Rite [sic] and title
against the claim or claims of every person or persons
claiming to the said the same to said party of the 
second part his heirs and assigns forever in witness
whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seal the day
and date above writin [sic].
                          JOHN RAINS {Seal}
                                her
                          UNITY  X  RAINS {Seal}
                                mark


THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI}
ITAWAMBA COUNTY         }

Before me JAMES M. LINDSEY Justice of the Peace for said
County personally appeared JOHN RAINS whose name appears
to the within deed and acknowledged that he signed sealed
and delivered said deed on the day and year and for the
purposes therein mentioned as his act and own voluntary
act and deed and also UNITY RAINS wife of the said JOHN
RAINS whose name also appears to said deed and upon a 
private examination separate and aprt from her said husband
acknowledged that she signed sealed and delivered said deed
as her own voluntary act and did freely without any threats
fear or compulsion of her said husband in Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and seal this May the 18th day
AD 1850.

                          JAMES M. LINDSEY {Seal}
                          Justice of the Peace


THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI}
ITAWAMBA COUNTY         }

I Wm H. MOORE Clerk of the Probate Court of said County do
hereby certify that the above and foregoing deed was filed
in my office for Record on the 4th day of January 1851 and
that the same together with the certificates of
acknowledgements has been duly recorded in Deed Record Book
No. 8 page 182.  Given under my hand and the Seal of said
court at office in Fulton this the 16th day of January
1851.

                         /s/ Wm. H. MOORE  Clerk


Transcriber's Note:

JOHN and UNITY (BAILEY) RAINS were my great-great
grandparents who were originally from Johnston County, North
Carolina, leaving there in the mid 1830's, stopping for a
while in 1840 in Cherokee County, Alabama, before settling
in the Itawamba County, Mississippi, area in the mid-to-late
1840's.

Some of the families, plus others, from the same North 
Carolina area who also settled in Itawamba by 1850 were 
BAILEY, BALY, KENT, RAPERS, and STRICKLAND families.


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