Fields & Whitson
To – Deed 
Lewis Matheny
Registered Feby 12, 1851
A. G. Ferguson Regr RD

State of Tennessee Gibson County
Know all men by these presents that we James Fields and J. D. Whison both of Gibson County and State 
of Tennessee for and in consideraton of the sum of ninety two dollars ____ cents to us in hand paid the 
receipt is hereby acknowledged have this day bargained and sold to Lewis Matheny of Dyer County and 
Stat aforesaid a certain tract or parcel of Land Containing thirty acres situated lying and being in the 
County of Dyer in the Mississippi bottom in Range ten and Section eight on the west bank of the Obion 
River granted to the said fields & Whitson by the State of Tennessee by 4156 & no of Entry 36 in Dyer 
County Beginning on the Bank of the Obion river at a Black gum Hickory and red bud 95 poles north and 
766 poles East from the South East Corner to an extention to an 8 acre entry in the name of Jones & 
Stephens Running South Forty nine poles to a stake and pointers Thence West ninety eight poles to a 
stake & pointers Thence North forty nine poles to the Beginning with the hereditaments and 
appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with appurtenances to the Said Lewis 
Mathey his heirs and assigns forever – We bind our selves and our heirs Executors & administrators to 
defendthe title to said land against the lawful claims of all persons whatever.  In witnessed whereof we 
have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this 15th day of January 1847.
	{Recd Feby 10, 1851}				James Fields {Seal}
	{@      oclk AM  }				J. D. Whitson {Seal}
State of Tennessee)
Dyer County)  Personally appeared before me James H. Doyle Clerk of the County Court of said County 
James Fields & John D. Whitson the within named bargainor with whom I am personally acquainted and 
who acknowledged the execution of the within deed of conveyance for the purposes therein contained.  
Witness my hand at office this 7th May 1848.
							James H. Doyle    Clerk

NOTE:  This Deed was found in deed book G on page 417.  It is transcribed as written with many 
grammatical errors.

1 There are several different variations of the spelling of Lewis Matheny in this deed.
2  This is DJ Williamson.  It is a typo.

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