WHITE COUNTY, TENNESSEE - DEEDS - JOHN W. ROBBERTS to SAMUEL M. MESSENGER
				  15 FEBRUARY 1867 
				   
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Joseph W. Robberts     Deed 100 Acreas
     To
Saml. M. Messenger }      Two 50 @ Rev. Stamps, Canicked

     This Indenture made and entered into this the 15th day of February 
One Thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven between Joseph W. Roberts and 
Samuel M. Messenger of the County and State aforesaid of the other part 
witnessed that the said Joseph W. Roberts for and in consideration of the 
sum of six hundred dollars to him in hand paid by the said Samuel M. 
Messenger the receipt whereof the said Joseph W. Roberts doth hereby 
acknowledge given bargained & granted and sold alien & confirm unto the 
said Samuel M. Messenger, heirs & assigns forever, all the right title & 
claim to said tract or parcel of land situated lying & being in the County 
of White & State of Tennessee on the South side of Falling Water, bounded 
as follows to wit, Beginning on a white oak standing in the edge of a 
sink the sourthwest corner a 61 3/4 acre tract running with J. T. 
Goodwin's line 67 1/2 poles to a stake or stone thence North 60 poles 
to a stake or stone in Mills line thence west with said line 63 poles 
to a hickory Mills corner, thence North 5 1/2 degrees west to a stake or 
stone 66 poles thence west with Rhea line 48 poles to a stake or stone 
chestnut & black oak pointers thence south 3 poles to a stake and 
pointers, thence west 4 poles to a small black gum, thence north 3 
poles to a stake, thence west 50 poles to a hickory, two black oaks & 
three frost oaks pointers in Holms line thence south with said line 66 
poles to three sassafass bushes & pointers thence East 23 poles to a 
stake or stone thence south 60 poles to the beginning containing one 
hundred acreas more or less it being the same lands that I now live on. I 
do covenant with the same Samuel M. Messenger, his heirs, and assigns 
that I am lawfully seized of said land and have a good right to convey 
it. I do convenant and bind myself my heirs and representatives to warrant 
and defend the right title against the claim of any person or persons 
claiming or holding under me and no further, In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and seal the day and date above writen assigned, 
sealed and delivered and acknowledged in the presence.

     Joseph W. Roberts (seal)

Attest Z. Hitchock
         W. H. Carter





State of Tennessee
White County}     
I, H. L. Carrick, Deputy Clerk of White County Court, certify that 
Joseph W. Roberts the above conveyer with whom I am personally 
acquainted appeared before me and acknowledged the execution of the 
foregoing deed of conveyance fore the purposes therein named.

     Given under my hand at office the 16
     Day of February 1867
     H. L. Carrick D. C.

Files and noted in Reception Book No. 1 page 112, 16 February 1867 at 
10 o'clock A.M.
     Thos H. Hancher, Register
     By. William Hollow D. R.