Deed Bk. R, pp. 11-12 (1842) Claiborne Co., TN

Joshua M. Trease deed to Wm. C. Trease 1/3 part of 220 Acres

State of Tennessee)

Claiborne County)

Personally appeared before me one Wiley Huffaker, Clerk of the County Court of said County, Joshua M. Treese the within named bargainer with whom I am personally acquainted and who acknowledged that he executed the within deed for the purposes therein contained. Witness my hand at office in Tazewell the 13th day of June, 1842.

Wiley Huffaker, Clk.

This Indenture made this thirteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two between Joshua M. Trease of the County of Claiborne and State of Tennessee of the one part, and William C. Trease of the same County and State of the other part, witnesseth that the said Joshua M. Trease for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred dollars to him in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, hath and by these presents doth hereby grant bargain sell allien enfeoff convey and confirm unto the said William C. Trease and his heirs and assigns forever, all the right title interest claim and demand that he, the said Joshua M. Trease, has in and to three tracts of land being an undivided third part of said tracts of land, they being three of the tracts of land of which George Trease dec’d seized and possessed and which has decended to the heirs at law of said George Trease, the first tract containing seventy acres, the second fifty acres, and the third one hundred acres, lying in Claiborne County in and near the Lonesome Valley and on the south side of Powell’s river, including all the houses where George Trease formerly lived and reference is hereby made to the title papers of sd. George Trease dec’d for boundries of said land, the undivided third part of a fourth tract containing thirty acres which also desended from sd. George Trease to Joshua M. Trease, one of his heirs at law, is not included in the conveyance but the whole title & interest of said Joshua M. Trease to his share of the three tracts first above mentioned is one of the heirs at law of said George Trease dec’d is hereby conveyed to have and to hold the said undivided third part of the said three tracts of land first above mentioned to the said William C. Trease and his heirs and assigns forever, with all the appurtenances in fee simple, saving and reserving the right of the widow of sd. George Trease dec’d to Dower in the said land.

And the said Joshua M. Trease for himself and his heirs and assigns, doth covenant that he will forever warrant and defend the said undivided third part of the tracts of land hereby conveyed against the lawful title claim or demand of all and every person or persons whatever in law or ?.

In testimony whereof the said Joshua M. Trease hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and date first above written.

Joshua M. Trease (seal)

Signed Sealed& delivered in presence of

W. R. Evans

Wiley Huffaker

Filed in my office the 13th day of June 1842 at 5 o’clock P.M. and Registered the 14th day of the same month.

Peter Marcum, Register for Claiborne County