MADISON COUNTY, TN - DEEDS- Jesse Russell & Sons Partnership
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Madison County Deed Book # 20, page 148

Jesse Russell & Sons Partnership
Reg Decr. 14th 1857

By this article of agreement entered into this 16th day of November 1857 between Jesse
Russell Sr. Jesse Russell Jr. and John R. Russell it is witnessed that the said parties
above named have this day entered into copartnership for the purpose of carrying on the
house painting business in the town of Jackson the said several partners giving their
time and labor to said business. It is agreed that the said Jesse Russell Sr. shall put
into said firm his house and lot in the town of Jackson to be conveyed by proper deed
of conveyance, his household furniture of every kind and his Horse & Buggy. That the
Jesse Russell Jr. and John R. Russell shall live with said Jesse Sr. and all expenses
of the family of said Jesse Sr. the necessary private expenses of said Jesse Jr. and
John R. Russell for their ordinary maintenance shall be counted a part of the expenses
of the firm & are to paid out of the proceeds of the same. It is further agreed that
each of said parties shall have power and authority to make any contracts for work and
materials & also for what may be necessary for the support of the family, but that none
of said parties shall have authority to bind the firm by any trade or contract outside
of the ordinary business of the firm except as specified above without the express
assent of the other parties hereto and it is further agreed that the proceeds of said
partnership after paying all expenses shall be equally divided between said parties to
the agreement.

Jesse Russell Sr. (seal) Jesse Russell Jr. (seal) John S. Russell (seal)

State of Tennessee Madison County

Personally appeared before me Thos. W. Gamewell clerk of the County Court of said
County the bargainers to the forgoing partnership Jesse Russell Sr. Jesse Russell Jr.
and John S. Russell with all of whom I am personally acquainted and acknowledged that
they executed said foregoing partnership contract for the purposes therein contained.
Witness my hand at Office this 14th day of December 1857 Thomas W. Gamewell clerk By H
M Cowal D Clerk

State of Tennessee Madison County I Wm G. Cockrill Register of said County do certify
that the foregoing contract and clerk's certified thereon was duly filed in my office
this day about 1 o'clock P. M. and noted in Minute Book No 3 page 148 Witness my hand
at office this 14th day of December 1857 Wm. G. Cockrill Reg