TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING; Know Ye, That for and in consideration of the sum of twelve and one half cents, per acre paid into the Office of the Entry taker of Carroll County, and entered on the 17th day of June 1846 pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of said State, passed 11 day of Jany, 1842, by No. 479 THERE IS GRANTED by the said State of Tennessee, unto Paul H Salmons
A certain tract or parcel of land, containing 164 3/4 Acres by servey, bearing date the 26th day of August 1847 lying in said county, Range 3 Section1 on Cane Creek, the waters of Rutherfords Fork of Obion River, Beginning on a small hickory bush with a black & spanish oak, pointers, 46 poles West of the N.E.C. of O.. Entry No. 134 for 55 2/4 acres in the name of C Davis & runs west passing the N.W.C. of the same at 47 poles in all 92 poles to a sweet gum with pointers on the E. boundary of Wm Johnsons Survey Thence North with the same crossing a branch Several times in all 142 poles to a stake, a post & 2 White oak pointers his N.E.C. ovnm? Then west of poles to a stake with black, nd, post oak & chesnut pointers Thence North 122 poles to a spanish oak with pointers Then East 109 poles to a blackoak with pointers on the W boundary of Jas C. Kirbys occupant Claim, Then South with the same, crossing cane Creek, nine to the right in all 764 poles to the Beginning With the hereditaments and appurtenances. To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances, to the said Paul H Salmons and his heirs forever. In Witness whereof, Neil S Brown Governor of the State of Tennessee; hath hereunto set his hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affix ed; at Nashville on the 12th day of January in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty- 8 and of the Independence of the United States, the 72 By the Governor: NS Brown W.B.A. Ramsey Secretary Note: The lettering in Italics was part of the form, and the bold was written in.
Charlotte
Curlee Ramsey
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