WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - Petition for partition of land
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The State of Tennessee
Williamson County Court, October Term 1835

John W. Neely and Susan his wife Keziah Berryman Josiah Wooldridge Minerva 
E. Wooldridge and Henry G. Wooldridge the last three are infants under the 
age of 21 years and [illegible] by their guardian Gilbert Marshall.

Ex parte:

Petition for partition
Be it remembered that this cause came on to be heard this 20th day of
October 1835 upon the petitition and [illegible] when it appeared that
petitioners own a tract of land situate in this County and Big Harpeth
bounded on the North by the lands of [illegible] on the East by the lands
of ?Guthrie? and on the South by the lands of Donalson and others and on
the West by the land of Nichols containing about two hundred and thirty
eight acres more or less which land is now in the occupation of Keziah
Wooldridge and others and is owned by petitioners in the following
proportions one seventh part thereof to said Josiah Minerva E. Henry G.
and Keziah each and the balance [three illegible words] John H. Neely and
wife. It is thereupon ordered, adjudged and directed that William W.
Brown, Stephen Nelson, Christopher McEwen, William [illegible] and James
?Carothers? be appointed commissioners that they or a majority of them
being first duly sworn to do equal and impartial justice among the
parties, proceed to divide and make partition of said land among the
parties allotting and setting apart three sevenths thereof in value to the
said John H. Neely and Susan his wife and one seventh part thereof in
value to each of the said Kezia Berryman, Minerva E. Wooldridge, Josiah
Wooldridge, and Henry G. Wooldridge and [illegible] make a report of their
proceedings and appropriations to the next term of this court under their
hands and seals ascertaining with precision by actual survey and
[illegible] the different tracts or parcels of land allotted and set apart
to each of the parties.

			Thos. Hardeman, Clerk.