N. VANDYKE & A. MOORE to CLARK & MARTIN - Rusk Co, 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)

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N. VANDYKE & A. MOORE to CLARK & MARTIN
     Know all men by these presents that I Nancy Vandyke for myself as widow of the 
late John Vandyke of Rusk County, deceased, as Guardian of my minor children and I, 
Amanda Moore, Daughter of the Said John Vandyke do hereby assign and Transfer unto Amos 
Clark and Bennett H. Martin all the Estate of said John Vandyke, Deceased, whether the 
same be real or personal or wheather in the hands of the administrator of Said John 
Vandyke, deceased or elsewhere in the Republic of Texas, including two horses, one 
claimed by Andrew Vandyke and the other by the said Amanda Moore, hereby authorising to 
take and use all lawful means for the recovery of said entire Estate within the 
Republic of Texas and the same as avails thereof to retain as a fee for professional 
services in and about the complaint against the said Amanda Moore, Nancy Vandyke and 
Nance a negro woman charged with murder of said John Vandyke hereby warranting and 
defending against one and all of the heirs of said John Vandyke, deceased.

Witness our hands and Seals the 27th November 1843.
                                                    her
                                               Nancy X Vandyke (Seal)
                                                    mark
                                              Amanda M. Moore (Seal)
Test.
Spruce M. Baird

Republic of Texas )
                  ) Came before me the Clerk of said County the within 
County of Rusk    ) named Nancy Vandyke and Amanda Moore, who acknowledged

the signature of the within and to be there own free act for the purposes therein 
contained - his 27th day of November A.D. 1843.
(Seal) EZRA WILSON, Clerk of
Rusk County Court
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This instrument is followed by the Bond of Ezra Wilson "to his Excellency Sam Houston, 
President of the Republic of Texas", upon Wilson's election to office as County Clerk. 
Wilson's securities on this Bond were: Taylor Brown and Richard Magee. Dated as of the 
28th day of November 1843.
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