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Giles Co., Tennessee Deed Book Z 1857 - 1859
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1350)
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Giles Co., Tennessee
Deed Book Z 1857 - 1859
p. 346
Joseph Young
To } Deed } Registered June 16th 1858
Wm Young Sen.
Know all men by these presents that I Joseph Young of Giles County & State of Tennessee having But two children Young Sr. & Nancy Kennedy wife of William Kennedy & I have lately given to the said Nancy Kennedy two negro Slaves named Washington & Amanda, Washington aged about 28 years & valued at $122500Amanda aged about 12 years & valued at $100000 & which together with the property I have heretofore given her is in full of all I ever intend to give her out of my property of any kind & which she & her husband William Kennedy are willing to take & have taken in full of all her share in my state & she is hereafter never to claim anything more from my estate either at my death or at any othe[sic] time and for the love & affection I have for my Son William Young I do hereby these presents alien, transfer & give to him the following property, to wit: a tract of land lying & being in Giles County Tennessee in District No. 10 on the waters of Bradshaw's creek & adjoining the lands of Hardin Griggs on the north Jackson Gamble & James Irwin on the South & west & Benjamin Garrett & John Holly on the East, being the same on which I now live & containing about 100 acres more or less & also three negro Slaves, one named Cephus, aged about 15 years, one named Alfred aged about 17 years, & the other named Nancy aged about 50 years & also all my other property of every kind & description, such as I now have & own or which I may have & own at my death Including money & all other property. To have & to hold to him the said William Young & his heirs forever. But it is agreed that I am to have the possession & used of said property for and during my natural life, & I am to be supported out of the same & at my death the whole of the same, together with all increase, rents, profits & income of the same not used in the support & maintance[sic] of my self are to go & belong to my said son William Young & his heirs forever. And if I should hereafter acquire any other property, the same at my death is also to belong to & go to said William Young & his heirs. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal. This 12th day of September 1857.
Joseph Young {seal}
Test } Willis Worley
} Hardin Griggs
State of Tennessee } Personally appeared before me, Amos R. Richardson, Clerk of the County Court of Giles County Willis Worley & Hardin Griggs the
Giles County } subscribing Witnesses to the within Deed, and after being duly sworn, depose & say they are personally acquainted with Joseph Young Sen. and that he acknowledged the same to be his act and deed in their presence on the day it bears date & for the purposes therein contained.
Witness my hand at office the 29th day of September 1857.
No 17 June Recd 2 Oclock P.M. June 14th 1858. Amos R. Richardson, Clerk
