Gregg Co., TX - Deeds - Sally H. Shortridge (and Mary G. Talbot)
to William Thomas
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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
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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.
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Quit Claim Deed dated Nov. 16, 1857, Filed July 6, 1880, Recorded
Vol. "A", p. 68

Sally H. Shortridge (and Mary G. Talbot) to William Thomas

State of Texas
County of Matagora
        "That we, Salley H. Shortridge (wife of John H. Shortridge) and 
Mary G. Talbot, daughters of Matthew Talbot and Harriet S. Talbot, his
wife, the last having departed this life in February 1851, in the county 
and state aforesaid.  For and in consideration of the sum of one dollar to
us in hand paid by William Thomas of the County of Upshur and State
aforesaid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged and for
further consideration and reasons that the said William Thomas has
paid to our father aforesaid in the year 1856."...
        Matthew Talbot, our father, conveyed by deed to the said William 
Thomas one undivided half of a league of land lying in the county of
Upshur  and State aforesaid.  The same being conveyed by the government
of Coahuila and Texas to Avery R. Johnson distant about thirty five
hundred varas north of and from Sabine River adjoining lands donated
by said government to John Cotton....  We hereby relinquish and quit-
claim all the right demand or interest that we ever had or in expectancy in 
future to the said William Thomas in and to the said land or any part 
thereof which in right of our deceased mother we might lawfully claim."
...16th day November 1857.
                Sally H. Shortridge    (seal)
                Mary G. Talbot          (seal)
Witnesses:  Henry Thorp and
               James H. Silkirk
(Henry Thorp was a Notary Public, Matagora Co., TX)

(Note by Virginia Selman:  This land now lies in Gregg County, TX, north
of the Sabine River.)