BEDFORD COUNTY, TN - COURT - Walter B. Sorrels to Alfred Jacobs, 3 Dec 1824
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Deed Book FF, pages 271-272

This indenture this 3rd day of December Eighteen hundred and twenty four
between Walter B. Sorrels of the County of Hardyman(sic) and State of
Tennessee of the one part and Alfred Jacobs of the County of Bedford of the
other part.  Witnesseth that the said Walter B. Sorrels for and in
consideration of sum of four hundred and fifty Dollars to him in hand paid the
receipt whereof the said Walter B. Sorrels doth hereby acknowledge hath
granted, bargained and sold, alienated and confirmed and by these presents
doth grant, bargain and sell and confirm unto the Alfred Jacobs, his heirs and
assigns forever all that tract, piece or parcel ... lying and being in the
County of Bedford and State aforesaid and being on the head waters of one fork
of the Garrison fork of Duck River and bounded as follows:

Beginning on a beech on the top of the ridge on the west boundary line
dividing the land of John McBride and Samuel Hanner it being a three hundred
acre tract that John McBride did purchase of Col Andrew Erwin and running an
Eastwardly course to a stake nine poles below the spring that Joel
Dayshields(sic)* uses water of and from thence an East course to the East
boundary line of the said three hundred acres as aforementioned and thence
north to the top of the ridge that divides the waters of the Garrison fork and
McBrides Creek thence with the meanders of said ridge a westwardly course and
following the line as called for in said McBrides Deed to the beginning.
Supposed to be one Hundred and fifty acres be the same more or less together
with all and singular the right hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto
belonging unto the sd. Alfred Jacobs forever and against the lawful claim or
claims of all persons or manner or persons whatever whereby the same might be
affected.  In witness where of I the said Walter B. Sorrels have hereunto set
my hand and affixed by seal this day and date above written.  Signed and
acknowledged in the presence of

Jeremiah Jacobs, Jurat            Walter B. Sorrels (Seal)
Joseph Jacobs, Jurat

State of Tennessee ¦ Personally appeared before me, James McKisick, clerk of 
Bedford County     ¦ Bedford County Court Jeremiah Jacobs and Joseph Jacobs 
who being duly sworn depose and say that they are acquainted with Walter B. 
Sorrels the within bargainer and that he acknowledged the same in their 
presents(sic) to be his act and deed for the purposes therein specified.  
Given under my hand & office this 1st day of Jany. 1836.

                               Ja. McKisick, clk
Registered April 7th, 1836     Thomas Davis, RBC

Transcribed by Dan S. Sharp from a copy of the original provided by Joan W. 
Pruett from the Tennessee State Library and Archives, 02 June 2003.

* [Note: The Marshs' "Land Deed Genealogy of Bedford County, Tennessee, 1807-
1852," page 214, identifies 'Joel Dayshields' as 'Joel Dashiell.']


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