CARROLL COUNTY TN - DEEDS - Jas. Lewis to Edward Gwin 1857
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Carroll County TN Deeds			Grantor: Jas. M. Lewis
Bk M, Pg 157				Grantee: Edward Gwin
Gordon Browning Museum, McKenzie, TN	Date: 9 Jan 1857
					Land:23 1/3 ac

State of Tennessee     
Carroll County

I Jas M. Lewis have this day sold and now convey unto E Gwinn of the county &
State for Sd to him his heirs and assigns for ever for and in consideration of
the sum of two hundred and thirty two dollars & fifty cents to me in hand paid
the receits whereof is hereby acknowl edged, a certain tract of land situated in
the county & State afore sd being a part of a tract of land that the said Lewis
bought of P. Jones and bounded as follows to wit begining on Said Lewis N.W.
corner on a a stake 2 Black gums and Dogwood pointers on W. Travis East line and
Thomas Patterson S. W. Corner & runs east 28 poles to a Stake 2 white oak &
Dogwood pointers thence South one hundred and thirty three and one third poles
to a Stake white oak Beech and maple pointers on the South line of the original,
thence West twenty eight poles to a Stake 2 Beech pointers on w. Travis S. E.
Corner, thence north one hundred and thirty three and one third poles to the
begining.  Containing twenty three and one Third acres be the same more or less.
I the said Lewis do covenant with Said Gwin that I am lawfully seized of sd land
Bargain & promise that I have a good right to sell it that the same unen
cumbered that I will forever covenant and defend the title of the same to the
said Gwin his heirs and as signs forever against myself my heirs and against the
legal claim or claims of all and every person or persons whatever in witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed my sesal this the 10th day of March
1856.
Test					James M. Lewis (Seal)
William D. Gilbert
Wm. M. Gwinn
State of Tennessee        Personally appeared before me Welbron
Carroll County            H. Graves Clerk of the County Court
of said county James M. Sims the ? with whom 
I am personally acquainted and who acknowledged that
he signed the within deed for the purchases therein
contained and on the day it bears date
   Witness my hand at office the 9th day of January 1857.
                                      W. H. Graves Clerk
Came to hand at 2 oclock PM January 9th 1857.
 			G. S. Harris Regr Of Carroll County