DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN - WILLS - Robert Bell, Jan 1817 ----¤¤¤---- Warranty Deed Book M p. 341 from Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County Archives 3801 Green Hills Village Drive Nashville, TN 37215 Samuel Bell and others: Heirs of Robert Bell Decd. to each other Registered August 21st 1818 We the subscribers, the children and legal representatives of Robert Bell deceased lately of Davidson County do hereby for our selves and our heirs covenant and agree that whereas said Robert Bell departed this life intestate after having provided during his life time for part of his children and leaving others without such provisions - Now we do hereby agree that the plantation in said County where said Robert lived shall be allotted and set apart to his three sons William Bell, Nathaniel Bell and Abraham Bell and that William Bell shall have the home mill erected on said land and fifteen acres in that corner of the tract as near a square as can conveniently be done to include the mill and the remainder to be equally divided between said Nathaniel and Abraham and their heirs and said William is also to have his equal share of a tract of eleven hundred and fifty acres on the Tennessee River if it should ever be obtained with such of his children as have not been sufficiently advanced in the life time of their father and it is also agreed that for and in consideration of the above transfer said William Bell, Nathaniel Bell and Abraham Bell will claim no more of said estate real or personal and will pay up to the others, or to the administrator of said estate the amount of what they severally purchased at said estate, and ??? do hereby agree that all the rest and residue of said estate including the residue of said land on Tennessee and the personal property shall be distributed in proper proportion amongst such of the children of said deceased as shall not have received what would be their equal proportion in his life time, exclusive of the said William, Nathaniel & Abraham. Witness our hands and seals this __ day of January 1817 Thomas Williamson Polly Williamson Samuel Bell David Bell Nathaniel Bell Catherine McCutchen John Allen Sally Allen Francis Bell William Marshall Ann Marshall William Bell J Bell Abraham Bell James Bell Thomas Bell Hugh Bell John Bell ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Paula Snyder PaulaS1218@aol.com ___________________________________________________________________