COFFEE COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - Charles Coulson to Alexander Powell
			    24 Apr 1837
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Deed: Charles Coulson to Alexander Powell

This indenture made this twenty fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred
and thirty seven between Charles Coulson of the County of Warren and State of
Tennessee of the one part and Alexander Powell of the County of Coffee and 
state aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth: that whereas Moses Matthews late 
of the County of Coffee executed a deed in trust to the said Charles Coulson 
to secure the payment of the sum of eight hundred and sixty seven dollars and 
four cents with lawful interest thereon to be paid four months from the date 
thereof and if the said sum of money with interest should not be paid before 
the expiration of Four months as aforesaid then the said Charles Coulson was 
to advertise in the Central Gazette a newspaper printed in McMinnville and at 
the Courthouse door and four public places in the County of Coffee and if at 
the time of the sale the money still remained unpaid or any part thereof then 
the said Charles Coulson was to proceed to sell said lands according to the 
stipulations of said deed of trust which will more fully appear by reference 
to the same - and which said tracts containing three hundred and twenty acres, 
being the same tract of land conveyed to David Bird by James Sheppard by deed 
bearing date the 28th February 1817 and bounded as follows, Beginning at a 
stake the West boundry line of a five thousand acre tract of land granted to 
David Ross and by him conveyed to said Sheppard thence East 320 poles to a 
stake in a timbered flat ridge, thence North 160 poles to a stake thence West 
320 poles to a stake in the aforesaid West boundary line of the said five 
thousand acre tract, thence South with said line to the beginning with it 
appertainances - also one other tract of land in the County of Coffee 
Tennessee, containing sixty acres to the same more or less being the same 
tract of land conveyed to David Bird by the aforesaid Jas Sheppard by deed 
bearing the date the first day of August 1823 and bounded as follows (to wit, 
Beginning at a stake the Southwest corner of a 320 acre tract of land deeded 
from Sheppard to Bird running East with the South boundary line of said 320 
acre tract to the main road leading from where A.? G. Hunt formerly kept a 
store to Dials Mills thence southwardly and with the west boundary line of 
this tract of land when Langston and John Cunningham now live to the north 
East corner of a tract of land Enoch Dials line on thence with his north
boundary line to the northwest corner of Dials one hundred acre tract thence 
North to the beginning with its appertainances.
And whereas the said Moses Matthews wholy failed to perform and coply with the 
terms of said deed of trust, by paying the money aforesaid within the time 
aforesaid , And  whereas on the fourth day of March 1837 the said Charles 
Coulson trustee as aforesaid proceeded to sell the aforesaid described tracts 
of land having first advertised the same according to the stipulations in said 
deed of trust mentioned for ready money, at the court house door in the town 
of Manchester in the County of Coffee aforesaid and did sell the same to 
Alexander Powell for the sum of eleven hundred and forty two dollars, he being 
the highest and best bidder.   Now this indenture witnesseth, that I Charles 
Coulson by virtue of power and authority in me vested by said deed of trust 
and the statutes usages and customs in such cases made and provided hath 
bargained, sold, aliened in?????????? and conveyed and by these presents doth
bargain sell alien ????????? and convey unto the said Alexander Powell his 
heirs and assigns for the consideration of eleven hundred and forty two 
dollars to me in hand paid by him the said Alexander Powell the receipt 
whereof is hereby acknowledged - To have and to hold to the said Alexander 
Powell the aforesaid tracts of land with all and singular the here??? ments 
and appurtainances thereto belonging to him his heirs and assigns forever - 
And the said Charles Coulson doth covenant and agree to and with the said 
Alexander Powell, that he will forever warrant and defnd the right and title 
of said land to him the said Alexander Powell his heirs and assigns forever 
free from the lawful claims or demand of him the said Moses Matthews his hand
or any other person claiming by? through or under him or them, In wintess 
whereof I have herein set my hand and seal this day and date above written.

					(signed) Charles Coulson  (seal)

State of Tennessee
Coffee County            Personally appeared before me Daniel McLean Clerk of 
the County Court of said County of Coffee Charles Coulson with whom I am 
personally acquainted and who acknowledged that he made and executed the 
within deed for the purposes therein contained.
Wintess my hand at office this 23rd day of May 1837    
					Daniel McLean Clk

Registered this 28th day of May 1837    Jess? Brantley Register
					by D.M. McLean