George & M. J. Branham
Deed to
Henry Corman, 1903
Source: Sumner County Deed Book 66, Pages 507 - 508
Transcribed by Jan J.
Barnes
©2003
For and in consideration of the sum of Two hundred & fifty dollars
paid & to be paid as follows, One hundred & fifty five & 50/100
in cash the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged and one note for Fifteen
dollars due March 1st 1904 and one note for Seventy nine & 50/100 dollars
due Sept. 20, 1906 int. from date, We Geo. Branham & wife M. J. Branham
have this day bargained & sold and do hereby transfer and convey until
Henry Corman a certain parcel of land, lying in the 10th Civil Dist. of Sumner
County Tenn. and bounded as follows: Beginning at a white oak, running
N 70 degrees E. 36 poles to a dogwood, thence N 6 W 25 poles to chestnut
oak, thence 50 1/2 degrees E 23 poles to chestnut oak, thence N 9 W 28 1/2
poles to black oak, thence N 40 degrees W 13 1/2 poles to Hickory, thence
N 97 1/2 W 20 poles to a stake hickory pointers, thence S 70 W 19 poles
to stake & hickory pointers thence N 67 W 10 poles to red Elm, thence
W 30 1/2 W 8 poles to small hickory, thence West 28 poles & 14 links
to a White oak in hollow, thence S 45 3/4 W 8 poles & 15 links to a stone
near a Spring, thence S. 59 degrees W 27 poles to a stone thence S 7 1/2
E 97 poles to a poplar on a hill side, thence S 87 1/2 E 86 poles to the
beginning containing by estimation 72 1/2 acres be the same more or less
to have and to hold the same to the said Henry Cormon or his heirs or assigns
forever. We covenant with the said Henry Cormon or his heirs
and assigns forever We covenant with the said Henry Cormon that we are lawfully
seized and possessed of said land have a good right to convey it and it is
unencumbered, we do further bind ourselves, our heirs or assigns against
the lawful claims of all persons. In witness whereof we have unto set
our names & seal, This Sept. 21, 1903.
Geo. (his mark) Branham
M. J. (her mark) Branham
State of Tennessee
Sumner County Personally appeared before me, Jno. W.
Reddick, Notary Public in and for said State and County the within named
Geo. Branham & wife M. J. Branham the bargainors with whom I am personally
acquainted and who acknowledges that they executed the within instrument
for the purposes therein contained. And M. J. Branham wife of the said
Geo. Branham having personally appeared before me privately and apart from
her husband, the said M. J. Branham acknowledges the execution of said
Deed to have been done by her freely, voluntarily and understandingly, without
compulsion or constraint from her said husband and for the purposes therein
expressed. Witness my hand & official seal at Rock Bridge Tenn.
this 21 day of Sept. 1903.
Jno. W. Reddick
Notary Public
(Seal)
Rec'd for Registration Jan 20th 1913 at 11:20 o'clock A.M.
Registered & Examined Jany 27, 1913
A. C. Dobbins