DECATUR COUNTY, TENNESSEE - DEEDS - W.W. HALE TO DUTTON HILL
				    24 JANUARY 1879

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Decatur County, Tennessee Deeds
Book 9, pp. 193-94
W.W. Hale Estate to Dutton Hill
Know all men by these presents that we Emily Miller and Lemuel Miller, 
W.W. Hale Martha Hale wife of W.W. Hale James Hale Permely Hale wife of 
James Hale have this day bargained and Sold and do hereby convey and
transfer to Dutton Hill his heirs or assigns forever for and in 
consideration of the Sum of Two Hundred and fifty Dollars to us paid a 
tract of land in the State of Tennessee County of Decatur and civil 
District No 12 Containing by Estimation fifty acres be the Same more or 
less and Bounded as follows Beginning at a Stake on the Bank of the creek 
on the North Boundary line of a tract of Land in the name of Susan 
Lawrences heirs Running north with the meanders of the creek to a Sarvice 
bush at the mouth of a ditch thence in a westerly Direction with Said 
Ditch and Blazed line to the East boundary line of a peace of Land in the 
name of Jonathan Lasiter thence South to west Boundary line of Said Entry 
thence East 63 poles more or less to the Beginning  To have and to hold 
the Same to the Said Dutton Hill his heirs and assigns forever we do 
covenant with the Said Dutton Hill that we have a good Right to convey it 
and that the Same is unencumbered we do further covenant and bind our 
Selves our heirs or Lawful Representatives to warrant and forever defend 
the title to Said Land and every part thereof to the Said Dutton Hill his 
heirs or assigns against the Lawful claims of all persons whomsoever this 
the 24th day of January 1879

     Emily  x  Miller  (Seal)
     Lemuel x  Miller  (Seal)
     W. W.  x  Hale    (Seal)
     Martha x  Hale    (Seal)
     James  x  Hale    (Seal)
     Permely x Hale    (Seal)

p. 194
State of Tennessee} Personally appeared before me John McMillan Clerk of
Decatur County    } the County Court of Said County appeared W.G. Riggs 
and James W. Hill Subscribing Witnesses to the foregoing Deed with whom I
am personally acquainted who being first Sworn Deposed and Said that they
are acquainted with Lemuel Miller W.W. Hale and James Hale the bargainers
and that they acknowledged the Same in their presence to be their act and
Deed upon the day it bears date  Witness my hand at office this the 19"
day of March 1879

   John McMillan  Clerk 

State of Tennessee}  To William G. Riggs a Justice fo the peace in and for
Decatur County    }  Said County you are hereby authorized and Empowered 
to Take the examination of Emily Miller Martha Hale and Permelia Hale 
Privately and apart from their husbands relative to their free Execution 
of the within Deed and the Same So Taken to certify under your hand and 
Seal
  Witness

John McMillan Clerk of the County Court of Decatur County Tennessee at 
office this 24" day of January 1879. 

State of Tennessee}
Decatur County    }  Emily Miller, wife of Lemuel Miller Martha Hale wife 
of W.W. Hale and Permelia Hale wife of James Hale having personally 
appeared before me and having by virtue of the authority in me vested been 
examined privately and apart from their Said husbands and they having 
acknowledged the Due Execution of the within deed by them freely and 
voluntarily and understandingly without compulsion or constraint by their 
Said husbands and for the purposes therein expressed the Same is therefore 
certified.  Witness my hand Seal this the 24" day of January 1879

   W.G. Riggs  {J.P.} 

State of Tennessee}  Registers office  February the 27" 1882 
Decatur County    }  I Wm Pratt Register for Said County Do certify that
the foregoing Deed and certificate are Registered in Said office in Book 
No 9 page 193  That they were Received February the 27th 1882 at 1 oclock 
P M and were Entered in Note Book E page 37
    Wm Pratt  Register