RUTHERFORD COUNTY TN - DEEDS - Stephen Cantrell & wife to Howard Barlow 1830 ********************************************************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Carole Gibson ********************************************************************************************************** Rutherford County Deeds From TSLA microfilm roll #112 Book S, page 312 Stephen Cantrell & wife to Howard Barlow, 520 acres This Indenture made and entered into this third day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred & thirty between Stephen Cantrell and his wife Juliat A.D. Cantrell both of the County of Davidson State of Tennessee of the one part and Howard Barlow of the county of Rutherford and State aforesaid of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Stephen Cantrell and Juliet A. D. for and in consideration of the sum of two thousand one hundred dollars to them in hand paid .and [ ] to be paid by the said Howard Barlow the receipt and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath this day bargained, sold, aliened, conveyed and confirmed and do by these present bargain, sell, alien and convey and confirm unto the said Howard Barlow and his heirs and assignees forever a certain tract or parcel of land. Situate lying and being in the county of Rutherford and State aforesaid on the waters of Armstrongs Creek of the west fork of Stones River butted and bounded as follows, to wit. Beginning at a stake in the north west corner of Lot No. 4 which was laid off for the heirs of Matilda McCartin decıd, thence running South three hundred and twenty poles to a stake being the south boundary line of Johnsonıs tract, thence west eighty poles to a stake on said line, thence south two hundred and ten poles to a stake, thence west one hundred and twenty five poles to a stake on the west boundary line of Grant No. 3282, thence north two hundred and two poles to a stake, thence East thirty eight poles to a stake, thence north three hundred and twenty poles to a stake being the north west corner to said Johnsonıs tract, thence East one hundred and sixty poles to the beginning. Supposed to contain five hundred and twenty acres, being Lot No. 5 in the Division of the lands of John & G.M. Deadrick, which Lot was drawn by the said Stephen Cantrell and Juliet A.D. Cantrell his wife, which division and reports of commissioners have been duly Registered in the Registers office of said county of Rutherford in Book [M?] pages 102, 102, 104, 105 & 106, which is here referred for greater certainty. To have and to hold to the said Howard Barlow his heirs and assignees forever the before recited land and bargained premises with the exception of a certain part or parcel of land which was recovered by Thomas Hopkins from the said Stephen Cantrell and Juliet A.D. his wife off of one end of the above described tract, which piece is a not hereby sold supposed to contain forty or fifty acres also the said Stephen Cantrell and Juliet A.D. his wife are not bound to warrant not defend any part of the before recited tract of five hundred and twenty acres which may be claimed at this time by the said Howard Barlow, his heirs or assignees by interfering lines of the said Barlow with the before recited tract of land. To have and to hold to him the said Howard Barlow his heirs, executors & administrators the before recited land with its appurtenances and hereditaments and every part and parcel thereof with the exceptions herein specified, and the said Stephen Cantrell and Juliet A.D. Cantrell his wife will for themselves, their heirs, executors & administrators warrant and forever defend the before recited land and bargained premises against the claim or claims of all and every person or persons whatsoever with the exception of the interfering lines of the said Howard Barlow and the part recovered by the said Thomas Hopkins and which is here distinctly understood not to be conveyed. In testimony whereof the said Stephen Cantrell and Juliet A.D. Cantrell have hereunto se their hands and affixed their seals the day & date found herein written. Signed, sealed & delivered in presence of us: Stephen Cantrell (seal) David Wendel Juliet A.D. Cantrell (seal) D.D. Wendel