Rutherford County TN Archives Deed.....Bethshares , Jesse  - Ballard Estate, Wiley  August 18, 1857
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Written: August 18, 1857
Recorded: March 1858

From Tennessee State Library and Archives
Nashville, Tennessee

Rutherford County Tennessee
Roll 119
Deed Books 
Vol. 9  1857 – 1858
pp. 282-283
On side of page: Delivered to J. Bethshares March 1858
No. 339
Jas. C. Fathera
To Deed 
Jesse Bethshares
I, James C. Fathera by virtue of the power and authority to me given in and by 
the last will and testament of Willie Ballard deceased and for and in 
consideration of the sum of Seventeen hundred & fifty three dollars to me paid 
by Jesse Bethshares the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have this day 
bargained and sold and do hereby transfer and convey to so said Jess Bethshares 
and his heirs forever two tracts or parcels of land lying in the County of 
Rutherford and State of Tennessee  and bounded as follows, The first tract 
contains by estimation one hundred acres, it being part of a one thousand acre 
tract  granted by the State of North Carolina to Armstrong, Beginning at an Ash 
standing on a Branch Eighty poles East of the Southwest corner of the original 
survey (a Black Oak) thence East with the old line (crossing Cripple Creek) 142 
poles to a Cedar, thence north 90 poles to a Hickory, thence west crossing 
Cripple Creek 212 poles to a small Cedar. Thence South 39+ - 15” East to the 
beginning, it being the same tract conveyed by Alex McCulloch to Willie Ballard 
by deed bearing date 20th day of September 1820. Another tract containing by 
estimation eleven and one fourth acres more or less Beginning at a Cedar the 
Southeast corner of the afore described tract of one hundred acres, Thence East 
20 poles to a Cedar Thence north 90 poles to a Cedar (crossing the road from 
Murfreesboro to Readyville) Thence west 20 poles, Thence South to the 
beginning. To have and to hold said lands (except is dower interest of Tabitha 
Ballard, widow of Willie Ballard decd which is not intended to be conveyed to 
said Jesse Bethshares and his heirs forever. I covenant with the said Jesse 
Bethshares that as the executor of Willie Ballard decd I have a good right to 
convey the above described land, and I further covenant and agree as executor 
of said Ballard to warrant and defend the title to said lands against the 
careful claims of all persons whatever, but I convey as executor only and am 
not personally bound per title.
This 18th August 1857				Jas. C. Fathera
Test Elihu Jones
John W. Hoover



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