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H.H. Kerr to Samuel Grisham and John Clayton, Deacons of Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church, 1884

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H.H. Kerr to Samuel Grisham and John Clayton, Deacons of Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church, 1884

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Title	H.H. Kerr to Samuel Grisham and John Clayton, Deacons of Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church, 1884
Record type	Deed
Creator	Rutherford County Register of Deeds Office
Date of creation	1884-11-01
Date of recordation	1884-11-13
Property seller	H.H. Kerr
Property buyer	Samuel Grisham, William Hallon, and John Clayton, Deacons of Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church
Description	H.H. Kerr sold one and 51/160 acres to Samuel Grisham, William Hallen, and John Clayton, Deacons of Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church, for the sum of twenty-five dollars.
Excerpt from record	"For & in consideration of the sum of twenty-five dollars to me in hand paid I. H.H. Kerr have this day sold & do hereby transfer & convey to Samuel Grisham & John Clayton Deacons of the Ebenezer Primitive Baptist church a certain lot of ground in the 9th District of Rutherford Co Tenn, near the Nashville & Murfreesboro Turnpike & bounded as follows, beginning at a stake the S. West corner of a Lot I sold to Wm Walter, running thence with his line north 24 poles to a stake Judge W.F. Cooper line, thence with his line N 87 1/2 West 15 2/5 poles to a stake the N East corner of land sold A. Avent, thence with Avents line South 24 1/2 poles to his S East corner, thence with north line of a road South 89 degrees E. 15 2/15 poles to the beginning containing 1 51/160 acres more or less, To have & to hold to the said Samuel Grisham, W.M. Hallen & John Clayton & 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. Grisham, Samuel Clayton, John Hallen, William Avent, A. Walter, William Cooper, Judge W.F.
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 458.
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