Scott County MsArchives Deed.....Rail Road, Southern - Whitehead, William & Elizabeth A. May 11 1858
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W1/2 of NE1/4 Section 24, Twp 6 R6E
Written: May 11 1858
Recorded: September 5 1858

Wm Whitehead & Wife			Filed for record Sept 5th 1858
       To/Deed					James D Jones  Clerk
Southern Rail Road					
Know all men by these presents that we William Whitehead and Elizabeth A. 
Whitehead of the County of Scott and State of Mississippi in and for 
consideration of the sum of one Dollar to us in hand paid before the sealing 
and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and 
for the further consideration of the advantages that will result to us by the 
construction of the Southern Rail Road do by these presents give grant bargain 
sell and convey unto the Southern Rail Road Company Charterea by the 
Legislature of the State of Mississippi the right of way for the track of said 
Road together with a space of fifty feet on each side of the center line 
thereof through our land to wit: the W1/2 of the NE1/4 of Section 24 in 
Township 6 Range 6 East lying and being in the County of Scott and State 
aforesaid together with the uses of rock gravel timber or any other material 
necessary for making or repairing said Road which may be on the line of said 
Road granting unto the said Southern Rail Road Company a quit claim to the same 
for the uses and purposes aforesaid.  In testimony whereof witness our hands 
and seals this 11th day of May AD 1858
Signed sealed and delivered			Wm Whitehead
In presence of					Elizabeth A. Whitehead
  Chas Vosburg
State of Mississippi
	Scott County		Personally appeared before me Joseph S Bishop 
and acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Wm Whitehead who 
acknowledged that he signed sealed and delivered the foregoing Deed as 
voluntary act and deed on the day and date and for the purposes therein 
specified also on the same day personally appeared before me Elizabeth A. 
Whitehead who being examined separate and apart from her said husband 
acknowledged that she signed sealed and delivered the foregoing deed as her own 
voluntary act and deed on the day and date and for the purposes therein 
specified – Without any fear threats or compulsion of her said husband
In testimony whereof witness my hand and seal this 11th day of May AD 1858.  	
						Joseph S. Bishop J.P.


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