A. B. Williams
To} Deed of Trust
Turner Chamblin
Recd October 16th 1866 2 Oclock PM

For and in consideration of one dollar to me paid and the other consideration herein after
mentioned I have bargained and sold and do hereby transfer and turn over to Turner 
Chamblin my present growing crop of cotton which is between two and three acres. But
 his transfer is made for the following and no other purposes. I am indebted to said 
Chamblin in the sum of Eighty Dollars advanced by him on said crop of cotton. Now I 
pay said debt by the twenty fifth day of December next then this sale shall be void and of 
no effect. In the mean time I shall pick out the cotton and deliver it to T Chamblin in 
Dyersburg in the seed and he shall control it, sell it  at his discretion and apply the 
proceeds of the sale final to the payment of the above debt and the remainder if there be 
any shall pay to me.  Witness my hand this October the 15th 1866
Test T. H. Benton (U. S. Stamps affixed .50)                                  his
								A. B. X Williams {Seal}
								         mark
State of Tennessee}
Dyer County}
Personally appeared before me T. H. Benton clerk of the county court of said county A. 
B. Williams the within named bargainor, with whom I am personally acquainted and who 
acknowledged that he executed the foregoing Deed of Trust for the purposes therein 
contained. Witness my hand at office this 15th day of October 1866.
						T. H. Benton Clerk


This deed was found in Dyer County Deed Book N Page 423.  It is transcribed as written 
with some grammatical errors.  

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