BLOUNT COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - Abraham Ridge to John F Garner and George Best
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Abraham Ridge 
Blount Co., TN
Deed Book Y p 361

I Abraham Ridge have this day bargained and sold and do hereby convey to John
F Garner and George Best for the Sum of Five Dollars to me paid and the other
considerations hereinafter mentioned, a tract of Land in the State of
Tennessee, Blount County and District number Seventeenth containing by
estimation Forty Acres, be it more or less, and bounded as follows, Beginning
on a White Oak Corner to George Best's land and Jacob Borden's thence with the
Said Border line to John Best Jnr's line thence with the same to the Top of
the Ridge  to a Hickory corner, original corner to Levi Briant's land, thence
with the same to George Best's line thence with his line to the Beginning, To
Have and to Hold the same to the said John F Garner & George Best their heirs
and assigns forever.  I do covenant with the said John F Garner & George Best
that I am lawfully seized of said land, have a good right to convey it, and
that the same is unencumbered.  I do further covenant and bind myself my Heirs
and Representatives to Warrant and forever defend the title to the said land
and every part thereof to the said John F Garner & George Best their Heirs and
assigns  against the lawful claim of all persons whatever.  I have this day
sold and do hereby convey to the said John F Garner & George Best the
following property, to wit, one brown Horse named Pilgrim eight years old, one
sorrel mare three years old named Chinch, one sorrel mare eleven years old
named Pus & Twenty Hives of Bees. But this Deed is made for the following uses
and trusts and for no other purpose, that is to say, Jane Ridge recovered a
Judgement against me on the  18th day of this instant before David Spradling a
Justice of the Peace for Blount County for Sixty Six Dollars and twenty five
cents and said John F Garner & George Best entered in Security to stay the
Execution on said Judgement.  Now I am desirous to make certain the payment of
the said Judgement and save harmless the said securities.  Now if I should pay
the said Judgement against the time said stay will be out, which will  be on
the 18th day of April next, then this Deed to be void; but if I should not
then the said John F Garner & George Best or Trustees after giving Twenty days
notice in writing at the Court House Door of said County and at the Election
ground of the 17th District and three other public places in the neighborhood
may expose the said Land and all the said Horse Beast & Bee Hives to publick
sale, and sell to the highest Bidder for cash and appropriate the proceeds
first to the payment of the necessary Expenses and costs, secondly to the
satisfaction of said Judgement of Sixty Six Dollars and twenty five cents, and
third to pay the balance if any there be to me this 23rd day August 1855.

				Abraham Ridge,   his X mark,   seal  

Executed & delivered in our presence this 23rd Day of August 1856
Robert Briant
Frederick Best    

[transcriber's note: No record of any court case of Jane Ridge versus Abraham 
was found. A daughter Jane Ridge  age 18 is enumerated with Abraham Ridge in 
1850, Blount Co., TN.  
Note also that the date above was given as 1855 in one place and 1856 in 
another]