Register of Deeds
Deed Book K pg. 471 & 472
Microfilmed by TN State Library & Archives (1969)
Deeds, v. I-K 1857-1861
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FHL Film 802760 DGS 8418603
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Deed for land from estate of Martha Wall registered for James Jakes & George Jakes
This indenture made and entered into this day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty between Hiram S Emerson Clerk of the County Court of Coffee Special Commissioner of the one part and James Jakes and George Jakes of the other parts, witnesseth that whereas the county court of Coffee County at it's January Term 1857 on the petition of the administrator and heirs at law of Martha Walls deceased decreed that the land belonging to the estate of said Martha Wall deceased be sold by the clerk of said court and whereas on the 16th day of February 1857 the said Hiram S. Emerson Clerk and said court after having first advertised the time and place of sale as required by said decree proceeded to sell the said land when W. A. C. Kendall became the purchaser at the sum of six hundred and fifty dollars, he paid Forty dollars down and executed his two notes with said James Jakes and George Jakes his securities payable in one and two years that said notes have since been fully paid off by said James Jakes and George Jakes and the said W A C Kendall transferred to the said Jakes all the rights and interest acquired by him under said purchase and directed the title to the sale land to be vested in said James Jakes and George Jakes, and the court having at the February Term of said court 1860 ordered and decreed that the said lands be conveyed to the said James Jakes and George Jakes by the Clerk of said court describing said land by metes and bounds, therefore in consideration of the premises and by virtue of decree aforesaid do hereby convey to the said James Jakes and George Jakes 2 certain tracts or parcels of land situated lying and being in the county of Coffee on the water of Rileys Creek in the 4th Civil District and bounded as follows towit, Beginning on two dogwoods and a stake the North East corner of Fifty acres entered and surveyed in the name of Thomas Jones, thence with the East boundary line of said tract South one hundred and twenty poles to two pawpaw about one and a half poles North of a large Buckeye marked W thence East passing a dogwood poplar and large Beech said to the Walter Daniels North West Corner at ten and a half poles continuing East in all seventy seven poles to a stake in said Daniels North Boundary line about three poles west of a dogwood marked as a corner thence North one hundred and thirty five poles to a stake in the South boundary line of an entry and survey for one hundred acres in the name of Barrett Adcock thence West with said south boundary line Seventy seven poles to a stake in said line thence south fifteen poles to the beginning, including and excluding fifteen acres older claims and one other tract bounded as follows to wit, Beginning on a stake about three poles west of a dogwood marked as a corner in Walter Daniels North boundary line and being also the south East corner of a fifty acre survey in the name of Martha Walls made upon entry No 1342 thence east with said Walter Daniels line seventy five and one half poles to a state in said Daniels field supposed to be on the west boundary line of W. Daniels land thence North Twenty six poles to a Black oak on the east band of a branch supposed to be said Wm Daniels North West corner thence North 27(degrees) West with a conditional line as laid off and agreed upon by and between James H Daniel and Alexr. Wall for Martha Wall one hundred and twenty four poles to a white oak the south east corner of an entry and survey in the name of Barrett Adcock for 100 acres thence West with said south boundary line of said survey eighteen poles to a state in said line, the North east Corner of said Martha Walls survey upon Entry No. 1349 for forty acres, thence south with the East boundary line of said survey one hundred and thirty five poles to the beginning.
To have and to hold the above mentioned and described land to them the said James Jakes and George Jakes the said Hiram S. Emerson Clerk and Special Commissioner as aforesaid do hereby convey to said James Jakes and George Jakes all the right title and claim of the heirs at law of Martha Wall deceased in and to said lands, hereby vesting in them the title to the same in as full and ample a manner as the said Hiram S. Emerson as clerk and Special Commissioner is capable of doing. In testimony whereof the said Hiram S. Emerson hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal this the day and year above written
Hiram S. Emerson Clerk (seal)
& Special Commissioner
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