Gregg Co., TX - Deeds - Oliver Pegues, Jr. to W. A. Williams *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** Gregg County, TX - DEED ABSTRACTS OF GREGG COUNTY, TEXAS Contributed by Virginia Selman, Longview, Texas Submitted by East Texas Genealogical Society P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711 Typed by Betty Sue Darby *********************************************** East Texas Family Records - Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 15-17 Submitted with the permission of the East Texas Genealogical Society, P O Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711 BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY defines a Deed as "At common law, a sealed instrument, containing a contract or covenant, delivered by the party to be bound thereby, and accepted by the party to whom the contract or covenant runs." Deeds found in the county courthouses, particularly where one person conveys land, tenements, or heredi- taments to another often contain much genealogical information. Deed Record "A", pp. 27-28 - Oliver Pegues, Jr. to W. A. Williams State of Texas County of Gregg I, O. H. Pegues, Jr. of State and County Aforesaid...convey unto W. A. Williams...a tract of land situated and being in the Town of Longview in the County of Gregg and State of Texas...Part of lot No. one in Block No. 20 and recorded in the District Court of Upshur County.... Witness this my hand and Seal using Scroll for Seal this 11th day of September A.D. 1873. Oliver H. Pegues, Jr. John F. Witherspoon, Notary Public - filed for record in my office the 11th day of September A.D. 1873 at 4:00 p.m., 8th day of October.' R. B. Levy, County Clerk