KNOX COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - George Perry to John Major
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This agreement made the fourteenth day of January One Thousand eight hundred 
and thirty three between George Perry of the County of Knox and State of 
Tennessee of the one part and John Major of the same place of the other part. 
 That the said Perry for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred 
dollars to him in hand paid the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged hath 
and doth bargain, sell, align, and convey unto the said John Major or his 
heirs and assigns forever a certain tract or parcel of land containing eighty 
three acres lying in the county of Knox and the state aforesaid on the waters 
of Beaver Creek beginning on Shells line thence south 45 degrees west with 
Donalsons line to the line of Joseph Givens one hundred and 70 poles to a 
stake near a  ? dogwood and black oak thence with said Givens line south 45 
degrees east 50 poles to a stake on the side of the ridge thence with said 
ridge north 40 -----too dark to read at bottom of page ---  seventy four 
poles to a stake thence south 45 degrees east to a stake thence north 45 
degrees .. 

Then more of the same "along Shell's line"  , etc  all waters, appurtenances, 
hereditaments, shall warrant defend, etc. usual legal language.

Signed by George Perry

Witnessed by:
John  Gillis?
William Major

Chas. McClung by his Deputy Wm. Swan