Eli Johnson
To – Deed Trust
James Johnson
Regered 4th Nov 1844
A. G. Ferguson Regr D. C.

For value received I have this day sold to James Johnson of Ashport Lauderdale County 
Tenn the following property eight head of stock and pork hogs two yearlings heifers four 
head of sheep fifty barrels of good corn four thousand pounds of cotton in the seed the 
cotton to be delivered at Randal Johnson esq gin one horse cart two feather beds and on 
bed stead one cross cut saw one falling leaf table one trunk and one shotgun one chest all 
of which property I bind myself to deliver to John Bearwick to hold for the said James 
Johnson and subject to his order and also the Ginners receipt for the seed Cotton.  
Witness my hand seal this first day of November 1844.

Witness R. C. Campbell		           his
					Eli X Johnson  {Seal}
					   mark

State of Tennessee)
Dyer County)  Personally appeared before me James H. Doyle Clerk of Dyer County 
Court the within named Eli Johnson with who I am personally acquainted and who 
acknowledged the execution of the within bill of sale for the purposes therein contained,  
Witness my hand at office this 4th day of November 1844.
							James H. Doyle    Clerk
		

NOTE:  This Grand/Deed was found in deed book F on page 137.  

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