RUTHERFORD COUNTY TN - DEEDS - Ambrose McKee Land Grant 1824

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Rutherford County Deeds

From TSLA microfilm roll #112



Book U, page 384

State of Tennessee to Ambrose McKee; grant of 100 acres

State of Tennessee No. 4329



To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting. Know ye, that for and in

consideration of the sum of twelve and one half cents per acre paid into the

office of the Entry Taker of Rutherford County and entered on the fifth day of

July 1824 pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of said

State passed on the twenty second day of November, one thousand eight hundred

and twenty three by No. 246.



There is granted by the said State of Tennessee unto Ambrose McKee, a certain

tract or parcel of Land, containing one hundred acres by survey bearing date the

sixth day of April 1825, lying in said county on the waters of McNairys branch

waters of the East fork of Stones River, and bounded as follows, to wit.

Beginning at a Black oak Samuel Gibsonšs north west corner, thence South with

his line one hundred and seventy five poles to a Sugartree & Cedar, thence west

one hundred and nineteen poles to a Hickory said McKeešs corner, thence north

ninety two poles to a Cedar on his line, thence East fifty eight poles to an

Elm, thence north eighty three poles to an ash Stephen Spainšs corner on Robert

Smithšs line, thence East with said line fifty one poles to the beginning. With

the hereditaments and appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel

of land with its appurtenances to the said Ambrose McKee and his heirs forever.



In witness whereof William Carroll, Governor of the State of Tennessee, hath

hereunto set his hand and caused the great Seal of the State to be affixed at

Nashville on the sixth day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand

eight hundred and twenty six, and of the Independence of the United States the

fifty first.



By the Governor                           Wm. Carroll

Daniel Graham, Secretary