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H.H. Kerr to John Swifft, George Hutcheson, and others, Trustees of Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, 1884

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Title	H.H. Kerr to John Swifft, George Hutcheson, and others, Trustees of Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, 1884
Record type	Deed
Creator	Rutherford County Register of Deeds Office
Date of creation	1884-07-23
Date of recordation	1884-07-23
Property seller	H.H. Kerr
Property buyer	John Swifft, George Hutcheson, Henry Dickerson, Henry Blackman, William Greer, Deacons and Trustees of Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church
Description	H.H. Kerr sold one and five-one-hundred-and-sixtieths of land to John Swifft, George Hutcheson, Henry Dickerson, Henry Blackman, and William Greer, Deacons and Trustees of Mount Olived Missionary Baptist Church for the sum of twenty-five dollars.
Excerpt from record	"For & in consideration of twenty five dollars to me paid the receipt of which is hereby acknowledge I, H.H. Kerr have this day bargained & sold & do hereby transfer & convey to John Swifft, George Hutcheson, Henry Dickerson, Henry Blackman & William Greer, Deacons & Trustees of Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, a lot of ground in Rutherford County Tennessee in 9 District of said county, bounded as follows: beginning at a stake in the middle of a road leading to the Nashville Pike & at the S. East corner of Judge W F Coopers tract, running thence with his line N 87 1/2 degrees W 27 1/2 poles to a stake thence South 6 poles to a stake Wm Walters corner, thence with his line S 87 1/2 degrees E 27 3/5 poles to a stake in the middle of said Road, thence 1 degree W 6 poles to the begining, containing one 5/160 acres, to have & to hold to the said Swifft, Hutcheson, Dickerson, Blackman & Greer and their successors in office forever."
Geographic location	Rutherford County (Tenn.) Cemetery Community, Rutherford County (Tenn.) Stones River National Battlefield (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Kerr, H.H. Swifft, John Hutcheson, George Dickerson, Henry Blackman, Henry Greer, William Cooper, W.F. Walter, William
Subject (LC)	Deeds--Tennessee--Rutherford County African Americans--Tennessee
Coverage	1880-1889
Contributing institution	Rutherford County Register of Deeds Office
Type	Text
Bibliographic citation	Deed book 27, page 378
Copyright status	Public domain
Conditions for use	This image is in the public domain and may be used freely.
Collection name	Stones River Battlefield Historic Landscape