SEVIER COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - Elisha Roberts to W. F. Nichols
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Contributor's Note:  Elisha Roberts was born in Tennessee in 1801; he 
married Grace Reed, daughter of Joseph Reed and Nancy McCarter, he was a 
farmer all his life. The following Indenture is between Elisha Roberts 
and W. F. Nichols both of Sevier County, Tennessee.  Elisha is the 
gggrandfather of this contributor.
   
State of Tennessee
Sevier County
Deed Book

I Elisha Roberts have this day bargained and sold and do hereby transfer
and convey to W. F. Nichols and his heirs forever for the consideration
of six hundred and seventy five dollars to me in hand paid a tract of
land in the State of Tennessee, Sevier County, and District No. 7
containing by estimationThirty Acres be the same more or less and
bounded as follows beginning on a stake on the Bank of French Broad
River then up the same North 49 East 11 poles to a stake corner to 1st
lot then with the same South 62 East 203 poles to a stake South 82 East
50 poles to a white oak on the bank of Millican Creek then with same
South 10 West 20 poles to a stake South 301/2 West 20 poles to a stake
on the line between lots No. 2 and 3 then South same North 75 West 14
poles to a sweetgum North 59 West 135 poles to a stake North 62 West 110
poles to the beginning.  To have and to hold the same to the said W. F.
Nichols his heirs and assigns forever I do covenant with the said W.F.
Nichols that I am lawfully seized of said land have a good right to
convey it and that the same is unincumbered I do further covenant and
bind myself my heirs and representatives to warrant and forever defend
the title to the said land and every part thereof to the said W.F.
Nichols his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims of all persons
whatever this 24th day of July 1858.

						Elisha Roberts (seal)

Test:     G. W. Hill
          Thos. Atchley