JACKSON COUNTY, TN - COURT RECORDS - James Draper vs. Jones Family
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Source: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Jackson County, TN Chancery 
Court Minutes, 
Microfilm, Roll #1, Book B, Page 103-104.

James Draper
vs.
Parthena Jones          Mary Loftis
James Jones             Thomas Jones
Laborne Loftis          William Jones
Rebecca Jones           George Jones
Anderson Jones          Elizabeth Jones
& Alexander Jones

Be it remembered that on the 15th day of July 1853 the above accuse [?] 
came on to be heard before Chancellor Ridley upon Bill and answer which it 
appears to the court that Elias Jones departed this life intestate & that 
complainant James Draper is his administrator legally appointed that 
previous his death he executed a deed to defendant James Jones for one 
hundred & fifty acres of land the same mentioned in Complainant's Bill 
that said deed though absolute on its face was intered as a Mortgage that 
the purposes of said mortgage have been answered & that said James has 
never paid anything for said lands That the defendant Parthena is the 
widow of deceased & had had [sic] her dower in other lands. that all other 
defendants except Laborn Loftis & children of deceased and his only lawful 
heirs that said Laborn Loftis intermarried with defendant Mary a daughter 
of the deceased & it further appeared that the legal debts of deceased 
exceeded his personal assets about $100. It is therefore ordered & decreed 
by the court that the deed to said land made by decd to the defendant 
James Jones be delivered up to be canceled & for nothing held & that the 
Clerk & Master after giving 40 days written notice of the time & place of 
sale at the courthouse door in Gainsboro at John Cummings Mill & at 
Alexander Montgomery's Mill till the land mentioned in Complainants [sic] 
Bill in a credit of 12 months taking not with good security from the 
purcher & also retain a lien upon said land until the payment of the 
purchase money & report to the next term of this court all other matters 
being resolved.