HAYWOOD COUNTY TN - DEEDS - Christopher F. Felts to John T. Felts 1833 ******************************************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Lynda Clarke ******************************************************************************************** Number 198 C. F. Felts To: Deed John T. Felts & others Filed 31st day of May 1833 at 3 oclock PM Registered 10th June 1833 Know all men by these presents that I Christopher F. Felts for and in consideration of the sum of five dollars to me paid by John T. Felts, Miles C. Felts and James M. Felts the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged. I do hereby bargain, sell and covey to John T. Felts, Miles C. Felts and James M. Felts ______a certain tract or parcel of land situated in the County of Haywood in the State of Tennessee containing three hundred and sixty five acres more or less being the same tract of land sold by a decree of this Chancery Court at Franklin in said State in the case of John Hill and others against Sally Felts, deceased, & being the balance of a tract of land of 75 acres formerly owned by Cary Felts, deceased, of which the said Carey Felts in his life time had convey to John T. Felts 155 acres and to the said Christopher 155 and to which the said Carey Felts devised title of deed from Daniel Madding and Sarah Dyer, registered in the register's office of Haywood County in Book A, pages 434, 435 & 436 to which reference in hereby made as also to the deeds to said John T. and Christopher F. Felts. To have and to hold the said John T., Miles C. and James F. Felts, their heirs __upon trust nevertheless that whereas I, the said Christopher F. Felts, am justly indebted to said John T., James M. and M. C. in the sum of three hundred and sixty nine dollars and twenty six cents for so much money paid by them for me as my securities in the purchase of said 365 acres of land at the sale of said land under the decree aforesaid and am willing to secure my said securities in said sum. Now therefore I hereby authorize the said John T., James M. and Miles C. to see said land or any part thereof at public or private sale, as they may deem best on such credit as they may deem ___ and out of the __ money to be secured to pay themselves the amount of said debt and interest and I hereby require that the balance of the money shall be paid to me. And I hereby request that said land may by the Chancery Court of aforesaid be decreed to the said John T., James M. and Miles C. Felts their heirs & __ for the purposes and trusts aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this 2nd December 1844. C. F. Felts {SEAL} State of Tennessee Davidson County Personally appeared before me, Robert B. Castleman, Clerk of the County Court of said county the within named C. F. Felts the bargainor with whom I am personally acquainted and who acknowledged that he executed the within deed for the purposes therein contained. Witness my hand at office this 2nd day of December 1844. Robert B. Castleman State tax 54¢ paid C. P. Taliaferro, Clerk Filed 31st May 1833 W. B. Grove, R.A.C. by W. B. Grove, D. R. HAYWOOD COUNTY DEED BOOK R, PAGE 502