Court, NC, Rutherford, Francis Beaty 1797

WHEREAS some disputes and controversies have subsisted between me the subscriber
FRANCIS BEATY and JONATHAN HARDIN which it is my desire to compromise and settle
now these presents do Witness that I the said FRANCIS BEATY agree and covenant I
will release and forever quit claim to the said JONATHAN HARDIN, his heirs and
assigns forever twelve acres of land including this mill and improvements thereunto
belonging which hath been in his possession twenty years and also supposed be in
this the line of his grant and also within the lines of my grant and I do by these
presents accordingly release and forever quit claim the said twelve acres of land
to be laid off in a long square up the hill and to the said JONATHAN HARDIN his
heirs and assigns forever and I the said FRANCIS BEATY do further agree and warrant
in like manner to release and forever quit claims to the said JONATHAN HARDIN his
heirs or assigns shall overflow or cause to be overflown with the pond of water
above his the said JONATHAN HARDIN’s present mill by means of raising the dam the
present dam or any future dam that shall be made for a mill at that place to the
height of five feet higher than the present mill at that place provided
nevertheless claim for such further quality of land as shall be by reason of
raising the dam hereafter overflowed until the said JONATHAN HARDIN his heirs or
assigns shall first pay and satisfy to the said FRANCIS BEATY his heirs or assigns
the sum of ten shillings per acre for the same land or hereafter to be overflowed
as aforesaid and I the said FRANCIS BEATY for the performances of the foregoing
covenants do bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators to the said
JONATHAN HARDIN his heirs and assigns.

In the penal sum of one hundred pounds.

In witness whereof the said FRANCIS BEATY hath hereunto set my hand and affixed my
seal this 15th day of April 1797.

FRANCIS BEATY {seal} [Frances Beaty]

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of

DANIEL CAMP
JAMES CAMP




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