RUTHERFORD COUNTY TN - DEEDS - John Wood to Locke & Abbott 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 476, No. 505 John Wood to Locke & Abbott; Benefit Rutherford County State of Tennessee, 20th June 1837 Received of Robert Locke & Charles R. Abbott, merchants & traders under the style of Locke & Abbott, Fifty two Dollars ninety cents in full for the whole of my interest as one of the legatees of the late John Wood deceased, to a negro man named Jacob, aged about forty years now hired to Thomas S. Jaratt, I say received in full and I hereby warrant so far as my said interest in the said negro man, that he is sound & healthy and a slave for life. Witness my hand and seal the day and year first above written. John Wood (seal) Witness Robert Wood