DECATUR COUNTY, TENNESSEE - DEEDS - Martha Shoemaker to Isaiah C. Riggs
				    1 September 1877

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Decatur County, Tennessee Deeds
Book 8, pp. 193-4
Martha Shoemaker to Isaiah C. Riggs
State of Tennessee
To all whoever it may concern Know ye that I have this Day bargained and
Sold and do by these presents convey to Isaiah C. Riggs for the Sum of one
hundred Dollars to me paid and the other considerations hereafter Set forth
a certain tract or parcel of land lying in Decatur County and the above
mentioned State civil District No (6)  Containing by estimation thirty
three and one half acres it being a portion of East End of an Eighty two
acre Survey in the name of S.E. Shoemaker and Bounded as follows
Beginning at the north East corner of Said Eighty two acres and L.T. 
Ransoms South East corner Runs South 60 poles to a Stake in the North line
of two hundred acres in the name of S.M. Houston thence West passing a 
corner of the Same at 58 poles in all 87 poles to a Stake in a field thence 
North 30 poles to a cherry tree thence East 39 poles to a Stake thence 
North 30 poles to a Stake in the North line of Said Eighty two acres thence 
East 58 poles to the Beginning
To have and hold the Same and every part thereof to the Said Isaiah C. 
Riggs his heirs and legal assigns forever I do covenant With the Said 
Isaiah C. Riggs that I am lawfully Seized of Said land have a good Right to
convey it and that the Same is unincumbered I do further covenant and bind
myself my heirs and legal Representatives to Warrant and forever defend the
title to the Said land and every part thereof to the Said Isaiah C. Riggs
his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims of any person what ever
this September 1st A.D. 1877
Attest  S.H. Houston                        Martha S. x Shoemaker (Seal)
        W.H. Graham
State of Tennessee}
Decatur County    } Personally appeared before me John McMillan Clerk of 
the County Court of Said County W.H. Graham and S.H. Houston the 
Subscribing Witnesses to the within deed who being first Sworn Deposed and 
Said that they are acquainted with Martha S. Shoemaker the bargainer and 
that She acknowledged the Same in their presence to be her act and Deed 
upon the day it bears date  Witness my hand at office this 2nd day of 
November 1877
                                               John McMillan  Clerk
State of Tennessee}
Decatur County    } Registers office April 1st 1878
I Wm. Pratt Register for Said County Do certify that the foregoing Deed and
Certificates are Registered in Book No 8 page 193 that they were Received
April the 1st 1878 at 2 oclock P.M. and were entered in note Book E page 19
                                      Wm Pratt   Register for Said County