SULLIVAN COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - James Webb to Adam Thomas ----¤¤¤---- Sullivan Co., TN DB 11, p. 145: James Webb to Adam Thomas Transcribed by Robert W. Keyes Jan 16, 2005 Source: FHL Film# 972708 This Indenture made this 18 th day of January 1832 between James Webb of the one part and Adam Thomas of the other part both of Sullivan County & State of Tennessee Witnesseth that the said James Webb for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred and seven dollars & twenty nine cents to him in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged by the said James Webb hath granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said Adam Thomas his heirs and assigns for ever the following described Negro to wit a Negro boy named John aged about four years a slave for life To have and to hold unto the said Adam Thomas his heirs &c forever to the only benefit and behoof of the said Adam Thomas his heirs and assigns and the said James Webb for himself his heirs Executors & Administrators doth by these presents covenant and agree to and with the said Adam his heirs &c that they shall enjoy the said Negro free from the claim of all and every person or persons whatever but upon the express trust and condition that whereas the said James Webb is indebted to Dury & Alison in the sum of one hundred and forty nine dollars and seventy nine cents & to Wm Dury in the sum of fifty seven dollars and fifty cents making the sum two hundred seven dollars & twenty nine cents for which amt the said Dury & Alison & Wm Dury hold said Webbs notes the note to Dury & Allison payable one day after date & the note to Wm Dury payable two months after date with interest from date executed by said Webb to Dury & Alison on the 14th of January 1832 & to Wm Dury on the 11th January 1832 now if the said Webb should fail to pay unto the said Dury & Alison & Wm Dury the said sum of two hundred and seven dollars & twenty nine cents or any part thereof on or before the 11th day of March next then and in that case the said Trustee is authorised and empowered to sell and dispose of said Negro at publick sale before the Court house door in Blountville in the State and County aforesaid adver tising said Negro at least twenty days previously in three publick places in said County for the purpose of raising said sum of money with the interest arising thereon and all costs charges incident to the execution of said trust and when the said Adam Thomas has raised the said sum of money aforesaid he is hereby directed and fully authorised to pay the same over to Dury & Alison and Wm Dury and the said Adam Thomas is fully and completely vested with power and authority when he sells said Negro to make a complete conveyance to the purchaser for the same which conveyance when made I do bind myself my heirs &c allways & at all times to confirm and any money that said Trustee may have left after discharging the aforesaid sum money with interest costs and charges thereon is to be paid over to the said James Webb In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal the day first above mentioned Signed Sealed & acknowledged in the presence of George Wolford Jas Webb (seal) his William Jackson mark State of Tennessee Sullivan County Court of pleas &c February Session 1832 then was the execution of the above Deed of Trust proven in open Court by George Westford and William Jackson witnesses let it be Registerd Rich'd Netherland Clerk March the 1st 1832 then Registered By G W Netherland DC ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Bob Keyes ___________________________________________________________________