BEDFORD COUNTY, TN - COURT - Chancery Court Decree, Land Transfer 
			     to Jeremiah Jacobs
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Deed Book QQ, page 460

Court Decree to Jeremiah Jacobs Decree 100 acres

William Wood  ¦
   vs         ¦   Be it remembered that this cause came on 
Alfred Jacobs ¦   for hearing and was heard this 27th day of February 1849
Upon Bill, Answer and Proconfesso, Order and Replication and the clerks report 
and it appearing to the satisfaction of the clerk & master, that the 
purchaser, Jeremiah Jacobs, has paid the full amount of the purchase money for 
said Land.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed by the Court that all the right,
title, claim & interest, which William Wood, Mary L(ouise?), Ann, James M.,
Martha, Tabitha, John W., Frances & Mary A. Robinson and Jacob, Susan, Sarah
and Catharine Nichols and Alfred Jacobs and William have in and to the
following described tract of land,

Bounded as follows, lying in the County of Bedford and in Civil District No.
1, Supposed to contain one hundred acres & bounded as follows, Beginning at a
rock, Elm, Hickory & Beech the North West corner of said tract, and the North
East corner of a tact of land owned by John G. Walker, and the South East &
West corners of two tracts of land owned by the heirs of A. B. Rowton(sic),
thence South crossing (Noah's?) Fork at forty six poles and the Shelbyville
and McMinville road at Seventy two poles in all South one hundred and Seventy
three & one half poles to a rock in Mead Hale's East boundary line.  Thence
East with one of said Hale's north boundary lines, ninety four poles and
nineteen links to a stake in said North Boundary lne and the South West corner
of Lot No. 5 this tract.  Thence North with the West boundary line One hundred
and Seventy three and one half poles to a stake, the North West corner of Lot
No. 5 and in the South boundary line of a tract owned by said Routon's(sic)
Heirs, then West with said Rowton's(sic) line to the beginning,

And that the same be divested out of them, and vested in the said Jeremiah
Jacobs, his heirs and assigns forever. And that Jeremiah Jacobs pay the costs
of this Decree.

I, William J. Whilthorn, Clerk & Master of the Chancery Court at Shelbyville,
do certify that the foregoing is a True Copy of the decree pronounced in this
cause by the Honourable (sic) the Chancery Court for Bedford County at its
February Term 1849.

In Testimony whereof I have herewith Set my hand and private seal having no
Seal of Office this 2nd day of April 1849.
					William J. Whilthorn
					Clerk & Master

Noted April 3rd 1849 at 10 O'clock A.M.
Recorded April 3rd 1849.
John H.Oneal(sic), Register

Transcribed by Dan S. Sharp from a copy of the original provided by Joan W. 
Pruett from the Tennessee State Library and Archives, 15 June 2003.


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