Hunt County, Texas - Augustus Orion Shields

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B. B.  THOMAS & HIS WIFE, MINERVA THOMAS TO A.  O.  SHIELDS

Hunt County Texas
 page 306, book number was not written on the document when it was copied.
April 18, 1890

THE STATE OF TEXAS      
County of Hunt}

Know all Men by these Presents, That We B.  B.  Thomas and his wife Minerva 
Thomas of the County of Hunt and State aforesaid, for and inconsideration of 
the sum of Six Hundred and Seventy five dollars to us in hand paid by A.  O.  
Shields as follows Seventy five Dollars in Cash and 4 notes bearing every 
date herewith and due respectively 15 day of Oct.  1890 & 15 Oct.  1891 & 15 
Oct 1892 & 15 Oct. 1893 for one Hundred and fifty Dollars each month ten per 
center per annum interest from date and a vendors lien is hereby retained on 
the herein after described land to secure the payment of the above described 
notes.  Have Granted, sold and Conveyed and by these presents do Grant Sell 
and Convey unto the said A.  O.  Shields of the County of Hunt and State of 
Texas all the certain tract of land situated in Hunt County Texas being part 
of J.  T.  Kimbrough 640 acre survey.  Beginning at the N. W.  Corner of the 
original Survey.  Thence East 398 5/10 varas a Stake.  Thence South 425 varas 
a stake.  Thence West 398 5/10 varas a stake.  Thence North 425 varas to the 
place of beginning.  Containing 30 acres of land more or less.

To have and to hold the above described premises together with all and 
singular the rights and appurtenances thereto in anywise belonging unto the 
said A.  O.  Shields, his heirs and assigns, forever.  Are we do hereby bind 
ourselves and his heirs, executors and administrators to WARRANTY AND FOREVER 
DEFEND all and singular the said premises unto the said A.  O. Shields, his 
heirs and assigns, against every person whomsoever lawfully claiming or to 
claim the same, or any part thereof.  Witness our hands at Greenville, Texas 
this 15th day of April AD 1890.
                    
s/ B.  B.  Thomas   
s/ Minerva Thomas 

THE STATE OF TEXAS }SS  
County of Hunt} 

Before me Alex Mason a Notary Public in and for the County of Hunt, on this 
day personally appeared B.  B.  Thomas and Minerva Thomas wife of said B.  B. 
 Thomas Known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the 
foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that they executed the same for 
the purposes and consideration therein expressed.  And the said Minerva 
Thomas wife of the said B.  B.  Thomas having been examined by me privily and 
apart from her husband, and having the same by me fully explained to her, 
she, the said Minerva Thomas acknowledged such instrument to me to be her act 
and deed, and she declared she had willingly signed the same for the purposes 
and consideration therein expressed, and that she did not wish to retract it.
    
Given under my hand and seal of office this 15 day of April AD 1890.
  Seal s/ Alex Mason, Notary Public, Hunt County, Texas 

Filed for Record the 28th day of April 1894 at 2:45 o'clock  PM and recorded 
the 28th day of June 1894 at 4 o'clock PM       s/ T.  A.  Smith, Clerk 
County Court, Hunt County, Texas
s/ Hy Remay?, Deputy Clerk

Transcribed from a copy of the original document housed in the Hunt County 
Courthouse, Greenville, Texas by Martha Thayer