Deed, TN, Rutherford, WILLIAM T. BRYANT to RACHEL POWELL, 1837

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No. 498

For, and in consideration of, the sum of eight hundred dollars, lawful money in
hand, paid by RACHEL POWELL to WILLIAM T. BRYANT, the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged, the said WILLIAM T. BRYANT hath, by these presents, bargained, sold,
transferred and conveyed to the said RACHEL POWELL, her heirs, executors,
administrators and assigns, all his interest in and to three Negroes, to wit:
HECTOR, SUCHEY and MILLEY who are now in the possession of the said WILLIAM T.
BRYANT as administrator of TEMPERANCE [HARRIS] BRYANT, deceased, and who descended
to said WILLIAM T. BRYANT, SAMUEL B. BRYANT and MARGARET [BRYANT] PARISH from their
ancestor, the said TEMPERANCE BRYANT, deceased.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD my interest in said Negroes, HECTOR, SUCHEY, and MILLEY to the
said RACHEL POWELL, her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns forever, from
the said WILLIAM T. BRYANT, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, and
all and every other person, my interest in said Negroes being two thirds of the
whole as two of them, to wit: one third in my own right as heir at law of my mother
TEMPERANCE BRYANT, deceased, and one third as conveyed to me by SAMUEL B. BRYANT on
the 25th day of July 1836.

Witness whereof I, the said WILLIAM T. BRYANT have hereunto set my hand and seal
this 11th day of December 1837.

WILLIAM T. BRYANT {seal}




State of Tennessee
Rutherford County

Personally appeared before me, ROBERT S. NORRIS, clerk of the county court of said
county. The foregoing named WILLIAM T. BRYANT bargainer, with whom I am personally
acquainted, and who acknowledged that he executed the foregoing bill of sale for
the purposes therein contained.

Witness my hand at office this 11th day of December 1837.

ROBERT S. NORRIS, clerk

Registered December 11th 1837




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