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
Medium	Book
Bibliographic citation	Deed Book 16, page 137-138
Copyright status	Public domain.
Collection name	Stones River Battlefield Historical Landscape