MAURY COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - Fitzgerald & Stanley, 26 Nov 1870
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Fitzgerald & Stanley's Deed	
Interest Executed by Thomas	
H. Jacobs, November 26th, 1870	
Registered November 29th, 1870	 
						
Know all men by these presents that I, Thomas H. Jacobs of Maury County,
State of Tennessee have this day bargained sold and conveyed and do by 
these presents Bargain sell and convey unto W. P. Fitzgerald and James D. 
Stanley for the consideration of five hundred dollars in the following payments 
to wit, two hundred dollars in cash to be paid on or before the 1st day of 
January 1871, the remainder of three hundred dollars to be due and payable 
by the execution of two notes for the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars 
each due and payable at one and two years from said first day of January 1871 
and each bearing legal interest from date, all my right title claim and undivided 
interest of inheritance by deed of gift from Pleasant Fitzgerald in and to the 
following described tract of land such undivided interest being the one seventh
part thereof, said tract of land is situate in the 19th Civil District of Maury County 
Tennessee on Carters Creek, and contains in all one hundred and thirty seven 
and one half acres be the same more or less. Beginning at a Sycamore at the mouth 
of branch of Carters Creek on the West side of said creek, thence up said branch 
with its meanders to a stake (an Elm now down called for in McLemore's deed to 
the Bennet Blackman tract) thence South 38 degrees West 64 poles to a fallen 
hickory and white Oak sappling, Joseph Rountree's South East corner, thence
 North 58 1/2 poles to a Boxelder & Black Ash, thence West North West 24 poles 
to a bunch of five Willows, thence North 135 1/2 poles a stake, McKee's South 
boundary line, thence East 58 poles with said McKee's line to a stake said McKee'' 
East corner, thence North 28 poles to Andrew Rountree's line, crossing Carters 
Creek 11 poles in all 28 poles to a hornbeam sappling, thence South to Carters 
Creek at 10 poles to a stake thence down said creek with its meanders to the 
beginning with the following reservations and conditions only vis. I am to reserve 
and hold possession of the houses and out-houses & buildings thereon during the 
natural life of Pleasant Fitzgerald including the garden as at present located with 
free use of firewood etc., and the purchasers said Fitzgerald and Stanley are to bear
all loss or incumbrance that may fall on said land by right of Dower if any shall so 
happen of the widow of said Pleasant Fitzgerald after his death: To have and to 
hold the same and all its appurtainances therein, with the reservations above 
named to the said W. P. Fitzgerald and James D. Stanley their heirs and assigns 
forever. And I hereby covenant and warrant the title to the said bargained premises 
(with the reservations above excepted) to the said W. P. Fitzgerald & James D. 
Stanley their heirs and assigns forever from the lawful claim or claims of all and 
every person whatever.
	Witness my hand and seal this 26 day of November 1871.
				Thomas H. Jacobs  (seal)
State of Tennessee-Maury County
Personally appeared before me John M. Hickey, Clerk of the County Court for said 
County, Thomas H. Jacobs the bargainor with whom I am personally acquainted, 
and who acknowledged that he executed the within instrument for the purpose
 therein contained. Witness my hand at office, the 26th day of Nov. 1870.
Titled Nov. 26th, 1870.		John M. Hickey,  Clerk
Complies with to the amt. of fifty cents in Revenue Stamps when filed in any office.	
				W. B. Wood, R.M.C.
(Spelling and punctuation as near to original document as could be determined)