Deed Bk T, pp. 543-44 (1848) Claiborne County TN

Joshua M. Trease and his wife to Johnson Mayes

State of Tennessee)

Claiborne County)

Personally appeared before me Thos. J. Johnson, Clerk of the County Court of said County, Nancy Trease, the feam in the above Deed, privately and apart from her said husband and who acknowledged that she executed the above deed freely, without compulsion from her husband, for the purposes therein contained upon the 2nd of Sept. 1848.

Witness my hand at office in Tazewell the 2nd of Sept. 1848.

Thos. J. Johnson, Clk.

This Indenture made this first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight between Joshua M. Trease and his wife, Nancy Trease, formerly Nancy Mayes and daughter and one of the heirs at law of Thomas Mayes, deceased, both of the County of Claiborne and State of Tennessee of the one part, and Johnson Mayes of the same County and State of the other part, witnesseth that the said Joshua M. Trease and his said wife Nancy Trease, for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to them in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have and by these presents do hereby grant bargain sell alien and enfeoff and convey and confirm unto the said Johnson Mayes and to his heirs and assigns forever the undivided twelfth part of a certain tract of land in Claiborne County sixteen in number decended from Thomas Mayes decea’d to his heirs at law, twelve in number, to wit: said tracts of land composing the place where said Thomas Mayes lived, and on big barron Creek as the waters there off the first tract being a tract of two hundred acres conveyed to said Thomas Mayes by James W. Glasgow, by deed dated the 28th of May 1820 - the second tract being fifty acres conveyed by Isaac Owsley to Thomas Mayes by deed dated the 17th of April 1823 - the third being a tract of forty acres conveyed by Samuel Nichelson to said Thomas Mayes on the 9th day of September 1825 - the fourth being a tract of twelve acres conveyed by Samuel Nichelson to Thomas Mayes on the 16th day of January 1827 - the fifth being a tract of 25 acres conveyed by David Hibbert to Thomas Mayes on the 10th day of September 1839 - the sixth being a tract containing 80 acres conveyed by William Bridges and Thomas Bridges to said Thomas Mayes on the 25th day of February 1809 - the seventh being a tract of 40 acres conveyed by John Casey and Walter Evans to the said Thomas Mayes on the 28th day of July 1814 - the eight(h) being a tract of 40 acres conveyed by James Glasgow by his attorney John Adair to Thomas Mayes on the 27th day of September 1811. The ninth being a tract or half a tract conveyed by William Goin to Thomas Mayes and Thomas Bridges on the 31st day of August 1808, the tenth being a tract of twenty acres conveyed by Samuel Nichelson to Thomas Mayes on the 16th day of May 1825, the eleventh being a tract of land and a boundry conveyed (by) David Hibbert to Thomas Mayes on the 20th day of April 1839, and being fifty acres. The twelfth being a tract of ten acres conveyed by Jacob Peck by his attorney Adam C. Peck to Thomas Mayes on the 22nd day of November 1837. The thirteenth being a tract of ten acres conveyed by Jacob Peck, by his attorney William R. Peck, to Thomas Mayes on the 28th day of April 1839 - the fourteenth, being a tract of ten acres conveyed by Jacob Peck by his attorney Adam C. Peck to Thomas Mayes on the 6th day of August 1840. The fifteenth being a tract of 20 acres conveyed by Jacob Peck by his attorney William R. Peck to Thomas Mayes on the 28th day of April 1839 - the sixteenth being a tract conveyed by Jacob Peck, by his attorney Adam C. Peck to Thomas Mayes on the 20th day of January 1840 - and containing ten acres, and all of which tracts of land are yet undivided and reference is hereby made to the original deeds of conveyance or the records thereof for the more full and perfect description of said tracts of land and to run and be bounded as therein described to have and to hold said undivided one twelfth part of said tracts of land so far as said Thomas Mayes held title therein at the time of his death to the said Johnson Mayes and his heirs and assigns forever and the said Joshua M. Trease and his wife, Nancy Trease, for themselves and their heirs and assigns executors and . . . .