Rutherford County TN Archives Deed.....Ballard, Wiley - McCulloch , Alexander  September 13, 1820
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Written: September 13, 1820
Recorded: October 1825

From Rutherford County Archives
Courthouse, Suite 301
Murfreesboro, TN 37130

Record Book Q pp. 351-352

No. 312
Alexander McCulloch
To Deed, 100 acres
Willie Ballard
This indenture made this thirteenth day of September Anno Domini, one thousand 
eight hundred and twenty, between Alexander McCulloch of the State of Alabama, 
Lawrence County on the one part, and Willie Ballard of the County of Rutherford 
& State of Tennessee on the other part, witnesseth, that the said Alexander 
McCulloch for and in consideration of the sum of seven hundred and sixty four 
dollars fifty cents to him in hand paid by said Willie Ballard, the receipt 
whereof  the said Alexander McCulloch do herby acknowledge, hath granted, 
bargained, sold, aliened, enfaoffed, confirmed and by the use of presents do 
grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfaoff, confirm unto him the said Willie Ballard 
his heirs & assigns forever one certain tract or parcel of land situated, lying 
& being in the aforesaid County of Rutherford on Cripple Creek  whereon the 
said Ballard now lives, being part of a one thousand acre tract granted by the 
State of North Carolina to …Armstrong, containing by estimation one hundred 
acres  be the same more or less and bounded as follows viz. Beginning at an ash 
tree standing in a Branch eighty poles East of the south west corner of the 
original survey (a Black oak) thence running from the ash East with the old 
line (crossing Cripple Creek) one hundred and forty two poles to a Cedar, 
thence north ninety poles to a Hickory, thence west crossing Cripple Creek two 
hundred and twelve poles to a small Cedar standing betwixt an Elm, Cedar 
Chingupin oak, from thence south 39+ - 15 East to the beginning. To have and to 
hold the said above granted land with all the premises & appertenances to him 
the said Willie Ballard his heirs and assigns forever, and the said Alexander 
McCulloch for himself & his heirs shall and will at all times warrant & forever 
defend the title of said land with all the appertenances unto him the said 
Willie Ballard free from the claim or claims of any other person or persons 
whatsoever. The witness whereof he the said Alexander McCulloch hath hereunto 
set his hand & affixed his seal the day & year first with written.
Signed, sealed & delivered					Alexander 
McCulloch  (seal)
In presence of Russell Dance 
Robert Strothen
State of Tennessee County Court: October Term, 1825
Rutherford County    The execution of the foregoing deed of conveyance from 
Alexander McCulloch to Willie Ballard, was duly proven in open court at the 
above term, by the oaths of Russell Dance and Robert Strothen, subscribing 
witnesses thereto, and ordered to be
Registered December 1st 1825			John R. Laughlin, Clk
Registered 24th March, 1826


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