Abner Benton and Others
To – Title Bond
Henry Folkes
Registered November 2, 1844
A. G. Ferguson Regr D. C.

Know all men these presents that I Abner Benton and Jno Rowlete1 D. I. Williamson 2 
and John P. Byrne all of Dyer County and State of Tennessee are held and firmly bound 
unto Henry Fowlkes in the Penal sum of one thousand dollars for which well and truly to 
be paid we bind ourselves our heirs executors administrators and assigns jointly severally 
and firmly by these presents the condition of the above obligation is such that whereas Sd 
Henry Fowlkes has this day purchased of Abner Benton Nathal Benton Thomas H. 
Benton Jr a Minor by his Guardian Abner Benton and of Robert D. Boggus and Susan his 
wife a certain tract of land owned by said parties as tenants in common, lying in Dyer 
County and contains by estimation five hundred and nineteen and a half acres being part 
of a five thousand acre tract granted to the heirs of Jesse Benton and that part which by a 
decree of the circuit Court of Dyer at the October terms A. D. 1844 was allotted and 
portioned to Sd Boggus and wife and the Sd Thomas H. Benton Jr and to Rufus Benton 
and Marcenas Benton in division between them and John Branch and Thomas Hane in 
said Court said tract of land being owned by the parties aforesaid in the following 
proportion to wit:  Abner Benton and  Nathaniel Benton owning each sixty four and five 
eighths acres and said Boggus and wife and Thomas H. Benton Jr owning each one 
hundred and ninety four and five eighths acres said land being purchased by said Fowlkes 
for 500 dollars in hand paid and the further sum of five hundred to be paid one year from 
date.  And whereas deeds of conveyances can only be obtained for the interest of said 
Nathaniel & Abner Benton said Buggus and wife being in Arkansas and said Thomas H. 
Benton Jr being a minor under the age of twenty one years.  Now therefore if said Abner 
Benton shall procure or cause to be procured deeds of conveyance for the other interest in 
said tract of land to wit The interest of said Boggus and wife and of Thomas H. Benton 
duly executed for registration according to the laws of Tennessee with Covenants of 
general warranty conveying said land to said Fowlkes in fee simple and where such deed 
or deeds duly registered in the registrars office of Dyer County on or before the 1st Day of 
November A. D. 1845 and if said A. Benton shall cause and procure said Fowlkes to 
placed in quiet and peaceable possession of said land on or before the 1st day of March 
1845 then this obligation to be void otherwise remain in full force and virtue.

Witness our hands and seals this 1st day November 1844.


					A. Benton {Seal}
					J. Rollett {Seal}
					D. I. Williamson {Seal}
					John P. Byrne  {Seal}

State of Tennessee)
Dyer County)  Personally appeared before me James H. Doyle Clerk of Dyer County 
Court A. Benton Jno Rollett D. I. Williamson and John P. Byrne the within bargainors all 
of whom I am personally acquainted and who acknowledged of the within bond for the 
purposes therein contained,  Witness my hand at office this 1st day of November 1844.
							James H. Doyle    Clerk
		

NOTE:  This Grand/Deed was found in deed book F on pages 136 & 137.  
1  There are 2 different spellings of John Rowlette in this document.
2  This is an error from the original transcription.  This person is DJ Williamson.

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