Deed for Tract 1, Edward L. Jordan to James M. Tompkins, May 14, 1868
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Title |
Deed for Tract 1, Edward L. Jordan to James M. Tompkins, May 14, 1868 |
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Record type |
Deed |
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Creator |
Clark, H. Wilson, Judge |
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Date of creation |
1868-05-14 |
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Description |
Deed acknowledging the sale of “seventy two and one fourth acres” by Edward L. Jordan, the assigner of the bankrupt estate of Mr. E.B. Hunt – the owner at the time of the war - for the amount of “one thousand, one hundred seventy dollars” by James M. Tompkins. |
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Additional notes |
Language in the document describes the land as starting from a “post oak” in the northwest corner, “running west sixty one and three fourths poles” to a another man’s property, then seventeen degrees east for seventy poles to a “stake in middle of the Nashville + Murfreesboro road,” then east along the road for one hundred poles, and finally back to the “post oak.” |
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Geographic location |
Rutherford County (Tenn.)
Cemetery Community, Rutherford County (Tenn.) |
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Subject (LC) |
Deeds--Tennessee--Rutherford County |
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Coverage |
1860-1869 |
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Contributing institution |
Rutherford County (Tenn.) Register of Deeds |
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Source File |
16.137_Jordan_Hunt_to_Tompkins |
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Type |
Text |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Copyright status |
Public domain. |
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Conditions for use |
May be reproduced without restriction. Please credit James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University. |
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Collection name |
Stones River Battlefield Historical Landscape |
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Cemetery, a Freedmen's Community, Rutherford County, Tennessee
