DEED - BEN JOHNSON to HENRY CHILDRESS

Transcribed & Submitted by:
Peggy J. Horton
wphor@sbcglobal.net
November 1, 2001

Itawamba County, Mississippi
Deed Record Book No. 6, page 411
                                                            
This Indenture made and entered into this Twenty ninth day of
January in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight-Hundred 
and Forty Seven (1847) between BEN JOHNSON of the City of
Vicksburg in the County of Warren and State of Mississippi of
the first part and HENRY CHILDRESS of the County of Itawamba
in the same State of the second part witnesseth that the said
BEN JOHNSON for and in consideration of the sum of Three 
hundred and seventy five Dollars to him in hand paid by the
said HENRY CHILDERS the receipt of which is hereby 
acknowledged hat this day granted bargained sold and conveyed
and by these presents doth grant bargained sell and convey 
unto the said HENRY CHILDRESS and to his heirs and assigns 
forever the south east quarter of Section Thirteen in Township
Seven or Range Six East containing 173-45/100 acres being in 
the County of Itawamba in said State of Mississippi.  To have
and to hold the above described land with all the
appertenances thereunto belonging to the said HENRY CHILDERS
and to his heirs and assigns in fee simple forever and the
said party of the first part for himself his heirs Executors
and administrators doth hereby covenant and agree to and with
the said HENRY CHILDERS his heirs Executors administrators
and assigns that the said party of the first part will and 
his heirs Executors & administrators shall forever warrant 
and defend the title to said granted Land and premises against
the lawful claim or claims of all and every person or persons
whatsoever both at law and in Equity.  In testimony whereof
the said party of the first part hath hereunto set his hand
and affixed his seal the day and year first above written.

The words "containing 173-45/100 acres"}  /s/ BEN JOHNSON {Seal}
in 16th line and "whereof" in 31st line}
underlined before signing and sealing. }
                         /s/ A.H. ROWLETT, Clerk


The State of Mississippi}
Warren County           }
                         Personally appeared before me ALFRED H.
ROWLETT Clerk of the Probate Court in and for said County the 
above named BEN JOHNSON who acknowledged that he signed
sealed and delivered the foregoing Deed on the day and year
therein mentioned as his act and deed.

                Given under my hand and seal of said court
                at Vicksburg County & State aforesaid this 30th
                day of January A D 1847.

                        /s/ A. H. ROWLETT  Clk


The State of Mississippi}
Itawamba County         }
                         I EDWIN G. THOMAS Clerk of the Probate
                         Court of said County do hereby certify
that the above Deed was on the 19th of June 1848 filed in my
office for Record and that the same together with the certificate
has been duly Record in Deed Record Book No. 6 page 411.

               Given under my hand and the seal
               of said court at office in Fulton
               this 19th day of July A D 1848
                       /s/ E. G. THOMAS
                               Clerk


Transcriber's Note: HENRY W. CHILDERS was my great-great
grandfather, originally from South Carolina, with a short stay
in Alabama, and was listed on the 1850 Itawamba County, MS
census.

As with many documents of that time period, the name of CHILDERS
was often spelled as CHILDRESS, even in the same document.

See Plat Survey made for his widow, ELIZABETH CHILDERS, dated
March 1, 1854.


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