Middle
Tennessee Land Grants Book 11, page 453 Grant # 9208
POLLY
MURRAY Bedford County Recorded June 25, 1829
{ SEAL} THE STATE
OF TENNESSEE-No.
To all to
whom these presents shall come--greetings
KNOW YE, That,
for and in consideration of the sum of
One cent per
acre, paid
into the office of the Entry-Taker of Bedford county, and entered
on the 2nd
day of
January 1826 pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the
General
Assembly of said state, passed on the twentysecond day of November,
one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, & the acts supplemental thereto by
No. 168.
there is granted by the State of Tennessee, unto Polly
Murray
a certain Tract or Parcel of LAND, containing One hundred
acres
by survey bearing date the 18th day of July
1827 lying in said county,
on the headwaters of the middle fork of Rock Creek and
bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning
at a Black Ash, Black Haw and Elm near Jessee McLean's north west corner on
George Cummings South boundary line.
Running thence south with McLeams line forty poles to a locust, his
corner, thence West with another of his lines forty five poles to John
Endsley's line, a stake & sugar tree, thence north with his line sixty four
poles to a stake & Ash, his corner, thence with his line & the line of
an Entry in the name of Elizabeth Whitsett ninety nine poles to a large
Elm. Thence north one hundred and forty
five poles to two sugar trees on Ross's south boundary line thence north Eighty
four & a half degrees East seventy
seven poles with said line to the north west corner of the said tract of land
Polly Murray now lives on, thence south ninety three poles to her south East
corner on Cummings line, thence south with the same Eighty three poles to a
white Ash, his corner, thence, East 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 Polly Murray
and her heirs forever.
In Witness Whereof,
William Hall, Governor of the State of Tennessee hath hereunto set his
hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed, at Nashville, on
the 14th day of May in the year of our lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine,
and of the independence of the United States, the fifty third.
BY THE GOVERNOR: W Hall
SECRETARY
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