SMITH COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - Tennessee Land Grant to James W. Gibson, 21 Jan 1825
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Recorded June 8th 1825

The State of Tennessee No. 771 [?]
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 Smith county, and entered 
on the 5th day of July 1824, pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the 
General Assembly of said state, passed on the 22d day of November, 1823, by 
No. 1645
There is granted by the said State of Tennessee, unto James W. Gibson
A certain tract or parcel of land, containing forty five acres by survey 
bearing date the 25th day of October 1824, lying in said county on the waters 
of Dixons Creek [on that head of the Sugar Cane branch] and bounded as follows 
to wit Beginning on an [?] Archibald Wilkinsons south west corner and on 
William Hargessı north boundary lines Running [hence] west crossing said 
Gibsonıs Spring [Š] ninety poles to a  [..] oak, John Johnson south west 
corner of his ninety three acres tract Thence north with said Johnsonıs east 
boundary eighty poles to two sugar trees and a hackberry, said Johnsonıs north 
east corner. Thence east ninety poles to a  [ ] on said Wilkersonıs west 
boundary, Thence [south?] with the same eighty poles to the beginning.

With the hereditaments and appertenances. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract 
or parcel of land with its appertenances to the said James W. Gibson 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 Murfreesborough on the 21st day of January in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five and of the Independence of the 
United States, the 49th.

BY THE GOVERNOR
      Wm Carroll
Daniel Graham, Secretary."


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