DECATUR COUNTY, TENNESSEE - DEEDS - ABEL WATSON TO J.H. HILL
				    21 FEBRUARY 1876

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Decatur County, Tennessee Deeds
Book 7, pp. 474-5
Abel Watson to J.H. Hill
Know all men by these presents that I Abel Watson Administrator of E.P.
Hill Deceased by virtue of the power in me vested by Law and in Compliance
with a bond executed by the Said Deceased in his lifetime on the 30th day 
of September 1872 I hereby Transfer and convey to J.H. Hill his heirs
and assigns forever for the consideration in Said bond (to wit)  Two 
hundred and eighty Seven Dollars and fifty cents paid to the Said E.P. 
Hill in his life time the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged all that 
certain piece or parcel of Land containing 40 Acres more or less Situated 
and lying in Decatur County Tennessee and Known and Designated as follows 
(to wit)   Beginning on the South East corner of the Jerry Johnson Land
Runs thence north 75 poles to a Stake thence west to Cub Creek thence
down Said creek with its meanders to Jerry Johnsons South Boundries line
thence East to the Beginning
The title to which Land I hereby bind the heirs of Said E.P. Hill to 
warrant and forever Defend to the Said J.H. Hill his heirs and assigns
against the Lawful claims of all persons whomsoever as fully  and
effectually as they could be bound by the Said E.P. Hill Deceased had he
Executed this Deed himself in his Lifetime according to the Power in me
vested witness my Signature this the 21 day of February 1876
Signed Sealed and Delivered in our presence

					       Abel Watson  (Seal)
                                               Administrator     
State of Tennessee}
Decatur County    }  Personally appeared before me John McMillan Clerk
of Said county Abel Watson Administrator of the Estate of E.P. Hill
Deceased the bargainor with whom I am personally acquainted who
acknowledged that he executed the foregoing Deed for the purposes therein
contained on the day it bears date  Witness my hand at office this 21st
day of February 1876
                          John McMillan  Clerk

State of Tennessee} Registers office April the 8th 1876 at 8 oclock AM
Decatur County    } then was the foregoing Deed duly Recorded in Record 
Book No. 7 page 474 noted in note Book E page 10.

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