Benton County, Tennessee Deed Book, Volume 2 Deed from JOHN J. AKINS to YOUNG W. ALLEN State of Tennessee, Carroll County I, John J. Akins, have sold to Young W. Allen, for and in consideration of the sum of ninety dollars to me in hand paid, one town lot lying in the town of Camden, known in the plan of the town by Lot No. 5. Witness my hand this 3rd day of May 1843. Test: D. H. Boyd I. T. Rust John J. Akins Deed from BURREL BEARD to HENRY GOSSETT I, Burrel Beard have sold to Henry Gossett, for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars to me in hand paid by Gossett, for a tract of l and lying in District No. 2, and containing fifty acres, beginning at a stake with mulberry, walnut and hickory pointers standing at the northwest corner of Entry No. 432 for twenty-five acres in the name of Amos Bruce, running then east 65 poles, then north 123 poles, then west 65 poles, then south 123 poles to the beginning. Witness my hand and seal this 17th day of August 1842. Test: Blake Forehand Allen Gossett Burrel Beard Deed from BURREL BEARD to JOHN S. WALKER Whereas James Beard, now deceased, on the 6th February 1837, executed to Allen Gossett, a bond in the sum of $650.00 by which he bound himself to make to Allen Gossett a title to two tracts of land lying on the waters of Birdsong Creek. And whereas Allen Gossett assigned the bond for value received on the 26th September 1843 to John Baggett and John S. Walker. Therefore, I, Burrel B. Beard, Administrator of James Beard, deceased, do convey to John S. Walker of Perry County, a tract of l and beginning 69 poles east of the southwest corner of a 50 acre warrant entry in the name of James Beard on the east side of Cane Branch, running east 58 poles to a stake, then north 43 poles to a stake in Birdsong Creek and the southeast corner of a 25 acre entry in the name of James Beard, then east 84 poles to the southeast corner of a 35 acre entry, then north 30 poles to a stake in Birdsong Creek, then 13 degrees south of west 20 poles, then 45 degrees north of west 12 poles, then 30 degrees west of south 30 poles, then 11 degrees west of south 8 poles, then south 16 poles, then 45 degrees south of west 8 poles, then 25 degrees north of west 20 poles, then 22 ½ degrees south of east 24 poles, then south 34 poles, then 22 ½ degrees east of south 10 poles, then 45 degrees south of west 6 poles, then 10 degrees south of west 16 poles to the beginning, and containing nineteen acres. Witness his hand this 5th day of November 1845. Test: A. Hawkins D. N. Burkett Burrel Beard, Administrator Deed from AMOS BRUCE to HENRY GOSSETT I, Amos Bruce, have this day conveyed to Henry Gossett, for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and sixty-five dollars to me in hand paid by Gossett, for a tract of land lying in District No. 2, and containing thirty-seven and a half acres, beginning 60 poles north of the northwest corner of Entry No. 340, running then south 60 poles, then east 60 poles to the northeast corner of Entry No. 340, then south 30 poles to a poplar root in the field, then east 33 poles, then 23 degrees west of north 92 poles to a stake, then west to the beginning. Witness my hand and seal this 19th day of August 1842. Test: Blake Forehand Allen Gossett Amos Bruce Mortgage from MARCELLUS CAIN to THOMAS A. PRESSON Indenture made this 24th day of June 1845, between Marcellus Cain of Benton County, and Thomas A. Presson of the same county, for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents to him in hand paid by Presson, for a tract of land containing twenty-two and one half acres granted to Cain by the state of Tennessee, lying in Range 7 Section 4, beginning at the southwest corner of an occupant in the name of Mary Hood, running south 40 poles to a stake, then west 20 poles to a stake, then south 120 poles, then east 89 poles, then south 34 poles to the northwest corner of Presson’s occupant, then east with his north boundary line 128 poles, then north 86 poles, then west 17 poles, then north 108 poles, then west 180 poles to the beginning; and two heifer yearlings marked with cross and under bits in the right ear and cross and under bit in the left. If Marcellus Cain does truly pay to Thomas A. Presson the sum of two hundred and twenty-four dollars and 25 cents by the 1st day of January 1847, then this deed to be void, else to remain in full force. Test: Allen (X) Crosnoe A. C. Presson Marcellus (X) Cain Deed from JOHN CROCKER to IRVIN B. CARNES Indenture made this 2nd day of August 1839, between John Crocker of Hardeman County, Tennessee, and Irvin B. Carnes of Benton County, for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred and nineteen dollars to him in hand paid by Carnes, for a tract of land lying on both sides of Cypress Creek, beginning on the side of a hill 110 poles east of the northwest corner of a tract of 166 acres deeded by Samuel McCorkle, Artarcas and Zephaniah Collins, running then east 79 poles, then south 170 poles, then west 79 poles, then north 170 poles to the beginning, and containing seventy-three acres. Test: John Davis Allen (X) Suter John Crocker Power of Attorney from ALLEN GOSSETT to PLEASANT MEDLINK I do nominate and appoint Pleasant Medlink, my attorney in fact, to prosecute a suit against the heirs of James Beard for a right to land which he executed his bond to me for in his lifetime for 85 acres lying on Birdsong Creek, where I now live; to employ counsel as he may need at my expense; and charge to obtain a deed from the heirs, and when the deed is made to me by suit, to make deeds to John S. Walker and John Baggett according to the calls in their bonds that they hold against me. Witness my hand and seal this 9th day of October 1843. Test: Nathaniel Nunnery Cullen Nowell Elisha Tedder Allen Gossett Deed from JAMES HART to JOHN McGILL Indenture made this 14th day of April 1830, between James Hart of Beaufort, Carteret County, North Carolina, and John McGill of Humphreys County, Tennessee, for and in consideration of the sum of four hundred dollars in hand paid by McGill, for a tract of land lying in District 12, Range 6 Section 5, on the east side of Big Sandy River, beginning at a maple with two sweet gum pointers standing 56 poles east of the northwest corner of Entry No. 1167 for 274 acres of which this is a part, running then south 126 ½ poles to a stake, then east 126 ½ poles to a stake, then north 126 ½ poles to a black oak with three black oak pointers standing on the north boundary line of the 274 acre tract, then west with the line 126 ½ poles to the beginning, and containing one hundred acres, which entry was formed on military land warrant No. 1005 for 275 acres which was issued from North Carolina. Test: J. Wiseman Allen C. Presson James Hart Bill of Sale from DAVID MORRIS to EPHRAIM PERKINS We have this day sold and conveyed to Ephraim Perkins, for and in consideration of the sum of four hundred dollars to us in hand paid, a negro girl named Sarah Ann, supposed ;to be fifteen years old the 5th day of September 1846, of dark colour. We warrant her to be sound, healthy, sensible and a slave for life. Witness our hands this 10th day of September 1846. Test: Allen (X) Corbett William K. Perkins David Morris Elizabeth (X) Morris Bond from NICHOLAS G. PATE to V. S. ALLEN I, Nicholas G. Pate, bind myself to pay V. S. Allen the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, in which V. S. Allen has this day purchased of me for $175.00 in payments, on judgments, one in favor of Mason Box, one note on me payable to S. C. Pavatt, and the balance in good cash notes. The payments have been this day made to me a tract of land beginning on the bank of the Tennessee River, the corner of an occupant in the name of E. G. Hackett, and transferred to T. Sanford, and N. G. Pate, then with the line west to the road and crossing the road, then south, then west, then north so as to include 50 acres. If I should make a good title to the land, then this obligation to be void, this 29th day of January 1849. Test: H. M. Brown James Winfield N. G. Pate Deed from HUGH CURRIE to JOHN PHIFER I, Hugh Currie, have this day sold to John Phifer, for and in consideration of the sum of one thousand dollars to me in hand paid by Phifer, a tract of land lying in District 7, and containing three hundred and sixty acres, being part of a survey of 1160 acres granted to Edward Wilson and James Currie by Grant No. 24952, and located by William Currie, beginning on the southeast corner of a tract of James M. Reeves on the bank of the Tennessee River, and running up the river with its meanders 180 poles on the bank of the river, then west 320 poles to a stake, then north 180 poles to James M. Reaves’ southwest corner, then east with the line to the beginning. Witness my hand and seal this 19th day of March 1842. Test: Samuel Benton Andrew J. Benton Allen Petty, Attorney Deed was acknowledged in open court on the 15th day of January 1845, and recorded the 17th day of January 1845. Deed from JAMES SNEED to JOHN H. THOMAS Indenture made this 2nd day of February 1846, between James Sneed and John H. Thomas, both of Humphreys County, for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to him in hand paid by Thomas, for a tract of land lying on the west bank of the Tennessee River, beginning at the mouth of Harmon’s Creek and the north bank of the creek running north down the river with its meanders to a stake on the bank of the river near the corner of the fence of Allen Leroy Dunlap, then west 45 poles to a stake, then south to a stake on the south bank of the creek, then east to the beginning, at the mouth of the creek it being twenty acres surveyed by D. P. Hudson and granted by the state to Robert Thompson, known in the division of his lands in Chancery as Lots No. 689 consigned to James McGloughlin and Matilda, his wife; John M. M. Wright and Sarah, his wife, heirs of Robert Thompson, and from to James Sneed. Test: John H. Marable James M. Reaves James (X) Sneed Deed, together with certificates from Humphreys County, were registered in my office on the 9th day of February 1846.