DECATUR COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - W. W. Sommersett to James M. Graves
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DECATUR COUNTY, TENNESSEE DEEDS, Volume 10, p. 457

W. W. SUMMERSETT]   I, W. W. Sommersett have this day bargained and sold
   to Deed      ]   and do hereby transfer and convey to James M. Graves
J. M. Graves    ]   and his heirs forever for the consideration of Four
hundred and ninety five Dollars to me paid a tract or parcel of land in
the State of Tennessee in Decatur County in Civil District No. 8
containing by estimation Three Hundred and Twenty acres be the same more
or less and bounded as follows In Range (?) and Section 11.  Beginning at
the south East corner of 200 acres in the name of Effa Harris runs West
200 poles to a Dogwood and pointers, thence South 172 poles to a Gum and
pointers, thence East 280 poles to a Stake and beach pointers, Thence North
212 poles to a Chestnut and pointers, thence West 80 poles to a Gum and
pointers, thence South 40 poles to the beginning.  To have and to hold the
same to the said J. M. Graves his heirs and assigns forever.  I do covenant
with the said J. M. Graves that I am lawfully seized of said land and 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 J. M.
Graves his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims of all persons
whatever.  This the 6th day of May 1884.
Test  W. G. Riggs }                             W. W. Sommerset
     James W. Hill}   State of Tennessee}
                       Decatur County   }  Personally appeared before me
J. E. Dees Clerk of the County Court of said County W. G. Riggs and James W.
Hill, subscribing witnesses to the within Deed, who being first sworn
deposed and said that they are acquainted with W. W. Sommersett the within
named bargainer, and that he acknowledged the same in their presence
Witness my hand at office This March the 1st 1886
                                                  J. E. Dees  Clerk
State of Tennessee}  Registers Office January 3rd 1888
  Decatur County  }  I, G. B. D. Rushing, Register of said County do
Certify that the foregoing Deed and Certificate are registered in said
Office
in Book K No. 10 Page 457, that they were recorded Jany 2nd 1888 at 10
Oclock
A.M. and were entered in Note Book E Page 66.
                                             G. B. D. Rushing, Register