This Indenture made this Seventh of July in the year of our Lord one

thousand eight hundred & Eighteen * of the  Independency of the United States

this party        Between Charles Allen of the County of Hancock & State

of Georgia of the one part & Sampson English of the County of Washington

& state afores* of the other part.  Witnefseth that the said Charles Allen

hath bargained sold & by these means doth bargain & sell, alien, convey

and confirmed unto the aforementioned Sampson English for and in consideration of__

the sum of nine hundred dollars to him in hand paid the receipt is

hereby acknowledged for all that tract or parcel of land containing

Four hundred acres be the same more or lefs, situate, lying and

being in the counties of Hancock & Washington & on Kegg creek Butting

and bounding as follows Northwardly by Ledbetters, Eastwardly by Molpafs?

at this Southwardly by Lewis. Beginning at a pine x running North

ten  **** fifty  fi**  to a pine x south Eighty ****  *****ly   sich  **
 
ks  to a  p***  ****  on C Allen line N10 W to a  ****  x thence westwardly

to a pine x thence S.7.E. to a stake x made by Lewis and Allen, thence

Eastwardly along a line of marked trees to a hickory x on L.  Kegg creek

thence down P. Creek to Lewis line, thence N.81D.E to a pine x thence

N.36.D East to a pine x on ****s old line, thence along said line to the

beginning x it being part of  two surveys, one made by Michael **ar  10

February 1790 and the other by Charles Allen 23red October 1812 having such

shape, form & marks as appears by p lots of the same, together with

all & singular that rights, members of appear **anced thereof  what

soever to the P tract or parcel of land belonging or in any wise apper-

taining & use P Charles Allen does hereby cov*s*an* & agree to & with

the P Sampson English that I myself & my heirs & afsigns will war-

rant of forever defend the P. land of promises to him the P. Sampson

English his heirs & & aligns, to have & to hold the P. tracts of land with

All its rights, ___ers & app__tenanced afores to Sampson English

having any first Right or claim or title to the same or any part

thereof.  In witnesfs whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed

my seal the day and years first above written

            His
Charles A Allen  {Sc?}
            Mark

Signed Sealed & delivered}                            
In the presence of us}              
Jeremiah Melton}                                    
Charles M. Dade}

Georgia} 
Washington County} 
Personally comes before me Charles M. Dade                                       
and hath on Oath, that he saw the ___
Deed executed and that Jeremiah Melton became
a substituting witnesfs with himself

Sworn to before me
This 8th day of August 1818
John Gilmore JP }                

Registered this 9th December 1819

Dd. Bk. N, p.124: Dec. 12, 1821,

Thomas Coleman to Sampson English, both of Hancock County, Ga., for $1,000, that tract of land lying in the counties of Hancock and Washington containing 449 a.  (Description)...to the shoals of the Ogeechee.  Wit: John English and John Brommel(?) (Note by Sandra P. Wellons: Crowell ?  In 1815 John Hardison’s property was to be sold to satisfy John Crowell in Washington County.)

Washington County, Georgia
May 2, 1825, personally appeared before me John English, Senr…said he saw Thomas Coleman assign and deliver ... deed to Sampson English... Lee Reaves J.P. 
 Rec. May 5, 1825.

Dd. Bk. N, July 18, 1823,

Sampson English to James Wilkins, both of Hancock County, Georgia, for $1,000.00, 449 a. in Hancock and Washington Counties to the shoals of Ogeechee… from County line on Southwest side of Sampson English’s house.  Wit: James Jackson, Theophilus Hardie and Wm. Rachel, J.P.  Rec: July 5, 1824.

(Note by SPW: 1) In Eliz. Ryan’s book. "The Hardisons: A Southern Odyssey", she mentions that a Theophilus Hardie started out in Maine with the Hardisons, appears in North Carolina with them, and later a Theophilus Hardie, a Primitive Baptist minister,  performs a wedding ceremony for some Hardisons in Florida in the 1800’s.  She points out that a number of the Hardisons named children Hardie Hardison. 2)  A Theophulus (sic) Hardie marries Nancy Woodward in Macon County, Ga., on December 16, 1860.