MCNAIRY COUNTY TN - DEEDS - John D. Case *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Contributed by Joanne Baucum ************************************************************************ McNairy County, Tennessee Deed Book L, pp. 224-5 13 January 1872 ALPHONSE CROSS, Clerk & Master JOHN D. CASE DEED, 96 acres [Note: This deed is significant because it includes a transcription of a chancery court record from August 1857. Those chancery court records no longer exist. The transcription indicates that "before the last deed of conveyance was executed, the said A. H. Case departed this life." It also lists his children, although their names vary from the heading to the text.] The State of Tennessee to all whom these presents may come greeting: Whereas in the Chancery Court for the State of Tennessee & County of McNairy began and held on the third Monday of August in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and forty [sic, should be fifty] seven the following decree among others was rendered up and ordered to be enrolled on the books in said office, viz. JOHN D. CASE v. ELINOR CASE [ELENDER BAUCUM CASE], AARON H. CASE, CHARLES CASE, A. A. SANDERS, W. L. CASE, E. A. H. CASE In Chancery - Be it remembered this cause came to be heard before the Honorable Stephen C. Pavott on the 17th day of August 1857 upon bill pro confisco order and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the tract of land described in the complainant's bill as Grant No _____ in the Range and Section in McNairy County, Tennessee and bounded as follows: Beginning 32 poles South and 18 poles West of the SouthWest corner of Reserve Entry No. 880 in the name of ABRAHAM LOURANCE at a post oak and 2 black jack pointers, thence South 228 poles to a post oak and 2 black jack and post oak pointers, thence East 226 poles to a stake, 2 black jacks and 2 post oak pointers, thence North 228 poles to a stake and black oak pointers, thence 126 poles to the beginning, and it further appearing to the satisfaction of the court that JONAS CASE, the father of complainant A. H. CASE, deceased, gave and surrendered the above described tract occupant of land to said parties to be equally divided between them as they might thereafter agree upon and it further appearing to the satisfaction of the court that A. H. CASE entered the whole tract of land above described for the benefit of both parties and to save expense and it further appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the south part of said tract of land to a conditional line of Right belongs to said J. D. CASE, to wit: Beginning at a post oak and 2 black jack pointers, the most northern SouthWest corner of Entry 2809 in the name of A. H. CASE, running East 130 poles to a stake and 2 post oak pointers, thence North 119 poles to a stake and 3 black jack pointers, thence West 130 poles to a stake, black jack, and 2 black jack pointers, thence South 117 poles to the beginning, and it further appearing to the satisfaction of the court that BEFORE THE LAST DEED OF CONVEYANCE WAS EXECUTED, THE SAID A. H. CASE DEPARTED THIS LIFE and it appearing to the court that the said first mentioned transfer was made in trust only, it is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed by the court that all the right claims and interest which THE HEIRS OF SAID A. H. CASE, TO [WIT] CHARLES CASE, W. T. [SIC] CASE, E. U. [SIC] H. CASE have in and to said ninety five acre tract of land to wit: Beginning at a post oak and 2 black jack pointers, the most northern NorthWest corner of Entry No. 2809 in the name of A. H. CASE, running East 130 poles to a stake and 3 black jack pointers, thence West 130 poles to a stake and 2 black jack pointers, thence thence South 117 poles to the beginning, be divested out of them and vested in the complainants John D. Case, his heirs and and assigns and representatives forever that JOHN D. CASE the complainant and FIELDING HURST and S. F. HUDDLESTON, his securities, pay the cost of this cause for which execution may issue and that said complainant have his judgment over against said defendants for half the cost in this cause. By virtue of the above, JOHN D. CASE is entitled to the said land described as being vested in him to the same in fee simple forever. I, Alphonse Cross, Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court for the County of McNairy, in the State of Tennessee certify that the above contained in brackets is a true copy of a final decree in said recited cause. Given under my hand at office the 12th day of December 1857 and of the independence of the united States the 81st. Alphonse Cross Clerk and Master Filed for registration January 13, 1872. E. R. Turner, Regr.