RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - Ephriam Meadows to Benjamin Crocker ==================================================================== 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. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Steve Carson carson@siggraph.org ==================================================================== Deed, Ephriam Meadows to Benjamin Crocker TSLA, Rutherford County Deeds, Book 4, page 407, 21 January 1850 Number 531. Ephriam Meadows to Benjamin Crocker, Deed Gift For the love and affection I entertain for Benjamin Crocker, I do hereby give and transfer and convey to him my tract of land in Rutherford County Tennessee district Number 14 Containing by Estimation Forty acres be the same more or less and bounded as follows. Beginning on a cedar on the East Bank of the West fork of Stones river, thence East one hundred and sixteen poles to a dogwood and oak on David Vance's line, thence north forty poles with David Vance's line to an Elm, thence West Eighty poles to an Elm, thence north forty five West to the mouth of a branch, thence up said West fork with its meanders to the Beginning. To have and to hold the same to the said Benjamin Crocker his heirs and assigns to warrant and defend the title to the said tract of land to the said Benjamin Crocker his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims of all persons whatsoever, this 21st day of January 1850. Ephriam Meadows ` Attest, Lewis Tucker William E. Modrall State of Tennessee, Rutherford County } Personally appeared before one John Woods Clerk of the County Court of said County, Lewis Tucker on the 11th day of February 1850 and William E. Modrall on said day subscribing witnesses to the within deed of Gift who being first sworn depose and say they are acquainted with the above named Ephriam Meadows the bargainor and that he acknowledged the same in their presence to be his act and deed upon the day it bears date, Witness my hand at office this 20th day of February 1850, John Woods, Clerk Registered February 27 1850