Title	R. Ransom, Sheriff, to R.T. Tompkins, Exr.
Record type	Deed
Creator	Rutherford County Register of Deeds Office
Date of creation	1874-12-16
Date of recordation	1874-12-16
Property seller	R. Ransom
Property buyer	R.T. Tompkins, Executor of James M. Tompkins, deceased
Description	A tract transferred in summary judgement from R. Ransom, sheriff, to R.T. Tompkins for the recovered sum of $3494.33.
Additional notes	This deed references that this is the same tract of land transferred between Peter Lowery and others from N.C. Collier.
Excerpt from record	"Whereas RT Tompkins, executor of James M Tompkins deceased, recovered a judgement for the sum of thirty-four hundred and ninety four and 33/100 dollars ($3494.33) debt and costs against Peter Lowery, President, Samuel Lowery, Secretary, and Peter Lowery, Samuel Lowery, LaFayette Robinson, Boyd Johnson, Frederick Dodson, and Samuel Davis - Trustees of the Turnpike Manual Labor UNiversity in the Chancery Court for Rutherford County, Tennessee on 6th day of June 1874, and upon which judgment an execution was issued by N.B. Black, Clerk and Master of said court, on the 8th day of September 1874, and which came to my hands as Sheriff of said county on the 9th day of September 1874, and there being no personal property of the said defendents to be found in the said county on which to buy said execution for the satisfaction thereof, I levied the same on the 9th day of September, 1874, on a certain tract of land, as the property of said defendants. Containing, by estimation, fifty seven and two-thirds acres, lying in the 9th Civil District of Rutherford County, State of Tennessee. beginning at a stake in the middle of the Nashville and Murfreesboro Turnpike Road, west of the US Cemetery, running north 145 and a half poles to a stake at the river, thence south to west, 32 poles to a stake, thence west 32 and a half poles to a stake, thence north 18 poles to a stake in the Railroad, thence West 27 poles to a stake, thence south 17 poles to a stake, thence west 20 poles to a stake; thence south 29 poles to the middle of the said Turnpike Road."
Geographic location	Rutherford County (Tenn.) Cemetery Community, Rutherford County (Tenn.) Stones River National Battlefield (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Ransom, R.A. Tompkins, R.T. Tompkins, James M. Lowery, Peter Lowery, Samuel Robinson, Lafayette Johnson, Boyd Dodson, Frederick Davis, Samuel
Subject (LC)	Deeds--Tennessee--Rutherford County
Coverage	1870-1879
Contributing institution	Rutherford County Register of Deeds Office
Medium	Book
Bibliographic citation	Deed Book 20, Pages 448-450
Copyright status	Public domain
Collection name	Stones River Battlefield Historical Landscape