JAMES BRADSHAW to WILLIAM ELLIOTT - Rusk County, Texas

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Originally published in the:
EAST TEXAS FAMILY RECORDS                   VOL.14, NO.2, SUMMER 1990 
Some Records from Deed Book "A" - Rusk County, TX (Continued)

Page 107                        JAMES BRADSHAW to WILLIAM ELLIOTT

The Republic of Texas )
County of Nacogdoches )
     Be it Known that before the undersigned Witnesses personally appeared James 
Bradshaw, administrator with the Will annexed of Thomas Williams, Deceased, who 
Declared that in obedience to Two Several orders of the Honorable, the Probate Court 
partitioning the estate and requiring him to make Titles to the Heirs and Legatees of 
said Thomas Williams, Deceased, he hath this day bargained Sold Conveyed and Set apart 
to William Elliott TWO TRACTS OF Land as the purchaser from Brooks Williams and 
William Williams two of the Heirs of Said Deceased, to-Wit:

     Two hundred & forty-Six acres of Land, situated in Rusk County and set apart to 
said William Williams, part of the headright of Thomas Williams, Deceased. Bounded on 
the Nort- by the tract set apart to said Polly Elliott and on the South by the Tract 
set apart to Brooks Williams and William Fields. East by a line running North and 
South dividing Said Headright Between Frost Thorn & Thomas Williams and on the West by 
a branch of the Angelina.
     Also a tract of land of Two Hundred and Sixty Seven acres set apart to Brooks 
Williams, bounded North by the Tract last mentioned, East by the Said Division line 
between Frost Thorn and Thomas Williams South by a tract Set apart to Naome Ware (?) & 
West by the tract set apart to William Fields.

     To have and to hold said tracts of Land with all the rights, members, and 
appurtanences to the said Tracts of Land belonging or in any wise appertaining to the 
land William Elliott, his heirs and assigns forever in fee simple.
     In testimony whereof the said James Bradshaw, administrator, as aforesaid, hath 
hereunto Set his hand and affixed his seal, using a scroll for a Seal this seventeenth 
Day of June A.D. 1844.

                                                  Jas. Bradshaw ( Seal ) 
                                                  Administrator of the
In presents of                                    Estate of
                                                  Thomas Williams
John H. Reagan
David Anderson
Henry Jeffery
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Page 108

The Republic of Texas )
County of Rusk        ) Personally came before me Clerk of Said County,
     Henry Jeffery, one of the subscribing Witnesses to the above Deed of Conveyance 
and acknowledged his Signature and Declared on Oath that James Bradshaw, whose 
Signature appears to the above Deed did sign, Seal and acknowledge the same to be his 
hand and Seal free act and Deed for the uses and purposes therein expressed. 
                                             Signed: EZRA WILSON, Clk. Rusk Co.
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