RUTHERFORD COUNTY TN - DEEDS - Mary Wood to Charles Dement 1837 ********************************************************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Carole Gibson ********************************************************************************************************** Book W, page 366, No. 385 Mary Wood to Charles Dement; Bill of Sale Received of Charles Dement two hundred dollars in full consideration of a certain negro woman a slave for life aged about sixteen years old by the name of Martha. I having a life estate in said negro left to me by my father William Rowton by will. Said negro is in the State of Missouri in St. Charles County in the hands of Benja. Hancock Administrator of Thomas L. Woodıs estate, and the said Charles Dement is to have the hire of said negro from March last. As witness my hand and seal this 26th May 1837 Samuel L. McAdoo his Robt. B. Warren Mary X Wood (seal) Richard Spencer mark William Wood