Edward L. Jordan, Assigner to 72 1/4 acres James M. Tompkins
Title |
Edward L. Jordan, Assigner to 72 1/4 acres James M. Tompkins |
Record type |
Deed |
Creator |
Rutherford County Register of Deeds Office |
Date of creation |
1868-05-14 |
Date of recordation |
1868-12-11 |
Property seller |
Edward L. Jordan, assigner of E.B. Hunt's bankrupt estate |
Property buyer |
James M. Tompkins |
Description |
A tract of seventy two and one fourth acres transferred from Edward L. Jordan, the assigner of the bankrupt estate of Mr. E.B. Hunt – the owner at the time of the war - by James M. Tompkins for the sum of one thousand, one hundred seventy dollars. |
Additional notes |
Court seized and sold this land; Hunt bankrupt. |
Excerpt from record |
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." |
Geographic location |
Rutherford County (Tenn.) Cemetery Community, Rutherford County (Tenn.) Stones River National Battlefield (Tenn.) |
Names that occur in the record |
Jordan, Edward L. Hunt, E.B. Tompkins, James M. |
Subject (LC) |
Deeds--Tennessee--Rutherford County |
Coverage |
1860-1869 |
Contributing institution |
Rutherford County Register of Deeds Office |
Source File |
srb0067 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
application/pdf |
Medium |
Book |
Bibliographic citation |
Deed Book 16, page 137-138 |
Copyright status |
Public domain. |
Conditions for use |
May be reproduced without restriction. Please credit James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University. |
Collection name |
Stones River Battlefield Historical Landscape |
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