DECATUR COUNTY, TENNESSEE - DEEDS - DUTTON HILL TO MARTHA A. EVANS 16 NOVEMBER 1871 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Phyllis Hill phill@redrock.net ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Decatur County, Tennessee Deeds Book 6, pp. 424-5 Dutton Hill to Martha A Evans I, Dutton Hill for the love and affection I Entertain for Martha A Evans Daughter of Dutton Hill do hereby give transfer and Convey to her a tract of Land in Decatur County Tennessee District no 12 Containing by Estimation one hundred and twenty five acres more or less and bounded as follows beginning on a poplar the west Boundary line of an Entry in the name of Johnathan Lassiter one hundred and fifty acres Runs East with the Broadies ferry thence to the East Boundry line of the Same thence North with Said line to the north west corner of an Entry in the name of Wood Hale thence East 50 poles to a Small White oak thence north to the conditional line between D Hill and S W Riggs thence west with Said to the west boundry thence South with said line to the Beginning to have and to hold the Same to the Said Martha A. Evans and her bodily heirs forever I Covenant and agree for my Self and heirs to Warrant and defend the title to the Said Land to the Said Martha A Evans and her boddily heirs forever against the Lawful claims of all persons whatever this November the 16th 1871 Dutton Hill (Seal) Wm W Evans J H Dodd State of Tennessee} Personally appered before me John McMillan Clerk of the Decatur County } county court of Said county Dutton Hill the bargainer with whom I am Personally acquainted who acknowledges the Execution of the foregoing Deed to be his act and Deed for the purposes therein contained on the day it bares date given under my hand at office the 17th Januy 1872 John McMillan Clk State of Tennessee } Registers Office February the 6th 1872 at 10 oclock Decatur County } A M then was the foregoing Deed duly Recorded in Record Book no 6 on page 464 &5 noted in note Book D on page 46 and was Stamped as the law Demands Wm Pratt R D C