BEDFORD COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - Patton & Erwin to Zebediah Payne ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Bob Meadows rmeadows@krl.org ==================================================================== Patton & Erwin to Zebediah Payne, Bedford Co., TN, 10 April 1812 Bedford Co., TN, deed book D, pp. 259-260: 259) Patton & Erwin to Z Payne for 119 This Indenture made this Tenth day of April in the year of Our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and twelve between James Patton & andrew Erwin of the County of Buncombe and State of N Carolina of The one part and Zedekeah Payne of the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee of the other part Witnesseth that for & in consideration of the Sum of Seven Hundred & Twenty Three Dollars to us in hand Paid by the Said Zedeah Payne the receipt whareof is hereby Acknowledged Hath Granted bargained Sold allien, Conveyed & Confirmed & do by these presents Grant Bargain Sell allien Convey & Confirm unto the said Zededeah Payne his heirs & assigns forever a Certain Tract or Parcel of Land Situate lying & being in The County of Bedford & on the Barron fork of Duck river Beginning at W C Ballards Corner on the river bank on a White Oake & beech thence South Thirty Six poles to Ballards other Corner on a White Oake Thence East One hundred & thirty two poles to two beeches & a Sugartree Passing J Ewels Corner at Eighty poles thence North thirty degrees West one hundred & Twenty poles to the middle of the South fork of duck river thence up the river bank with the meanders thareof North Sixty degrees East thirty Six pols Thence North 30 [degrees] west one hundred & two pols to a beech & [--pg. 260--] Ironwood in W. Carters line Thence west with his line Fifty Six poles to a beech Dogwood & hornbeam Thence South one Hundred & Sixty Eight poles to the Beginning Containing by Calculation one Hundred & nineteen acres be the Same more or Less To Have and to Hold The aforesaid Tract of Land together with all & Singular The rights profits emoluments hereditaments & Appurtenances of in & to the Same belonging or in any wise appertaining To the only proper use and behoof of him the said Zebediah Payne his heirs & assigns forever & we the said James Patton & Andrew Erwin for ourselves our heirs Executors administrators & assigns do Covenant & agree to & with the said Zebediah Payne his heirs & assigns that the before recited Land & bargained premises we will warrant & forever defend against the right Title Claim Interest or demand of all & every person or manner of persons whatever In Witness whareof we the said James Patton & Andrew Irwin have hereunto set our hands And & affixed Our Seals the day & year first above Written Signed Sealed and Delivered in presents of H. Grove .............................Andrew Erwin for (seal) E Hord ............................James Patton & himself (seal) J Ewell ....................................ack State of Tennessee ) March Session 1813 Bedford County ....) I Thomas Moore Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions for the County of Bedford do hereby Certify that the Execution of the within Deed from James Patton & Andrew Irvin to Zebedeah Payne was acknowledged in open Court by Andrew Erwin for Patton & Erwin & ordered to be Certified for registration Given under my hand at office this 26th day of April 1813 Tho Moore Clk Registered 9th June 1813 Edw'd Wade Regt