Deed, B. A. Vansickle - Rusk County, Texas

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Submitted by ETGS
24 Aug 2002
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Originally published in the:
EAST TEXAS FAMILY RECORDS                         VOL.14, NO.1, SPRING 1990

SOME RUSK COUNTY DEEDS - DEED BOOK "A"  (Continued)
Submitted by Mary Franklin Dunn, Henderson, Texas

The Republic of Texas }
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County of Rusk        }     Know all men by these presents that I, Benjamin A. 
Vansickle of said county am held and firmly bound unto William Montgomery of the same 
place in the sum of one thousand dollars par money for the payment of which well and 
truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs and assigns, jointly and severly by these 
presents seald with my seal and dated this 15th day of October 1843.
     The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the said Vansickle has 
sold to the said Montgomery for one dollar and fifty cents per acre a certain tract of 
land, Beginning on the South Bank of the Merralo Creek on the East Boundary line of a 
survey belonging to Dyer Houston, Thence south on said 670 varas to a post on the 
South Boundary of said Vansickles headright Survey and from which a _____ 12 inches in 
diameter N 12 E 6 Vs. and Thence East on said old line 1700 varas to a post whence an 
ash 4 in. in diam E 12 vs and thence South 1400 varas to a corner on a Ro (red oak?) 
18 in diam, a Hickory 8 in diam an ash 3 in diam growning in a Bunch, thence West to 
the Branch on which said Montgomery lives Thence down said Branch untill it intersects 
with the Merralo Creek, thence up said Creek with the meanders thereof to the 
Beginning, containing Three hundred and Twenty acres more or less. Now if the said 
Vansickle shall make or cause to be made to the said Montgomery his heirs and assigns 
a good and lawful Title to the said tract of Land in fee simple as soon as he can 
obtain a pattent from the Government for the Same, then this obligation to be Void, 
otherwise to remain in full force in Law. Signed, sealed and delivered the day and 
year above written.

Test: E. C. Lane
Test: Obadiah Hutson                                B. A. Vansickle (Seal)

The Republic of Texas }
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County of Rusk        }     Personally appeared before me, Clerk of Said County, 
between Vansickle whose signature appears to the above and foregoing Title Bond and 
acknowledged Same to be his hand and seal free act and deed for the uses and purposes 
therein contained.
                                       Given under my hand and seal this
                                       29th day of November A.D. 1843.
                                       Ezra Wilson, Clerk of Rusk County
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