Hardeman County TN Archives Deed.....Reding, Robert - Woods, Et Al May 1, 1848
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Written: May 1, 1848
Recorded: November 1848

Orange County
North Carolina
Deed Book 33, Page 183, 184
J A Woods etal to Robert Reding

J A Woods etal to Robert Reding

     Know all men by these presents that we Joseph
A Woods & Fanny E Woods his wife (formerly Fanny
E Ray) and Charles W Ray all of the County of Harde
man & State of Tennessee have made, ordained, consti
tuted & appointed and by the presents do make
ordain, constitute & appoint Robert Reding of
the County of Orange & State of North Carolina our
true & Lawful Attorney for us & in our names
to make sale of, and make title to, our undivided
Shares & interests in & of a certain tract of Land
Land in said County of Orange belonging to the
Estate of Eleanor Ann Ray decd, and which decended
to her Lawfull heirs, of which we are two,
we hereby authorize our Said Attorney to con
sult with the other Legal heirs of Said Land, as to
the best made of making Sale thereo, whether
publicly or privetly, or whether for ready Money
or on a Credit, as to them may Seem most bene
ficial to all concerned, and after a Sale shall be
effected & made, to make & Execute to the purchaser
a good and Bonafide title in Law to our re
spective shares as if we were present, and to re
ceive from the purchaser our respective shares
thereof in Money, and receipt & grant discharge there
for in Our names, and if Need be to Sue for, re
cover & receive the Same and hold it Subject
to our Orders, and further we hereby authorize
our Said Attorney to Settle with & receive from
the administrator of Said Estate our respective
shares thereof when the same may become due
and grant discharges in our names respectively
for the Same, and if necessary for the accomplish
ment of the above purposes, an Attorney or Attor
neys under him to make & revoke at pleasure, Hereby
ratifying whatever our Attorney or Attorneys under
him may Lawfully do in the prmises.
   And further we advise & instruct our Said
Attorney that if Upon Consultation with the Other
heirs & Legatees of the Said Eleanor Ann Ray decd
and they are all Willing, and Legally fairly agree
thereto, then & in that case we agree, Consent and
direct that Martha Jane, Daughter of Joanna Ray
decd, who was a daughter of said Eleanor Ann
Ray decd, shall be deemed & taken as a lawful heir
standing in the place of her deceased Mother as
if she had been living at her Mothers Death
(But if, they are not all Willing we are not)
     In Witness whereof we hereto set our hands
& seals this first day of May 1848
Witness			Jos. A Woods    (Seal)
  Test				     her
    E Polk      )   	Fanny X E Woods (Seal)
    George Wood )		     mark
				Charles W Ray   (Seal)
State of Tennessee)
Hardeman County   )   Personally appeared before me
R P Neely Clerk of the County Court of Said County
Joseph A Woods & Charles W Ray two of the
parties to the above Power of Attorney with whom
I am personally acquainted and who duly ack
nowledged the Execution of the same to be their
Act & Deed for the purposes therein Expressed
and upon the day of its date, and also ap
peared before me Fanny E Woods the other
party to the above, and Wife of J A Woods
with whom I am acquainted, and having been
examined privetly Seperate & apart from her Said
husband acknowledges the Execution of the Same
to be her Act & Deed for the purposes therein Expressed
understandingly, Knowingly & without restraint, com
pulsion or Coercion on the part of her said husband,
and upon the day of its date.
     In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & affixed the Seal of my office this
first day of May AD 1848
				R P Neely Clk
(seal)

State of Tennessee )
Hardeman County    ) I Isiah Teague Chairman
& presiding Justice of the County Court of the aforesaid
County do hereby certify that R P Neely whose certi
ficate appears to the foregoing is Clk of our Said Court
and was at the time of Signing the Same, and that his
certificate is in due form and that due faith & Credit
should be given all his Official Acts as Such
    Given under my hand & private Seal, hav
ing no Seal of Office this first May AD 1848
				J Teague Chm (Seal)
State of Tennessee )
Hardeman County    ) I R P Neely Clk of the County
Court of Said County do hereby – that Josiah Teague
Esq whose Certificate appears above, is & was Chair
man & presiding Justice of our County Court, duly
Elected [etc] and that his certificate is in due form
and that due faith & Credit is due his official acts
as such In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
        set my hand & affixed the Seal of my Office
(seal)  done at Office this 1st May 1848
				R P Neely Clk
Orange County Nov Term 1848
     The Within power of Attorney was
produced in Open Court & the Certificates thereo an
nexed appearing to the Court to be in due form
of Law, it is Ordered by the Said Court that the
said Power of Attorney with the accompayning
certificates be registered
			Teste     J Allison CCC



Additional Comments:
Joseph E Woods
Fanny E Woods (formerly Fanny E Ray)
Charles W Ray
Eleanor Ann Ray decd

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