To
/ Final Decree
Expectation
Petition To
Sell
Land & d
Registered August 12th 1854
State of Tennessee Gibson County
Circuit
Court March Term 1850
Proceedings
in said Court, Friday 29th of month Richard B. McGee for himself and
administration with the will annexed of James D. Scrape deceased, and
administrator
of
Sarah D. Scrape, Elizabeth E. McGee wife of said R.B. McGee, William H. Scrape
& Susan M. Scrape & Sarah E. Scrape, by their guardian W.H. Scrape .
Expertise Petition .
Petition
to Sell Land & Town Lots
Be
it remembered that on the 28th day of March 1850 came on this cause
to be finally and was he and before the Honorable William Fitz Jerald, Judge
& presiding at Trenton upon the
request of the clerk of the county.
Which request being unexpected to the same is in all things confirmed .
When it appeared to the
satisfaction of the county that said clerk
in a decree to the term of the intervention decree rendered at its former
term of this court, in this county that he had sold the two acres of ground with
the house & mentioned in the petition to the said Richard B. McGee for the
sum of one thousand dollars and said McGee had paid said sum of money . Said lot
of ground
Of
two acres is boundary follows. To
Wit. In the county
Of
Gibson and the state of Tennessee in the immediately
Vicinity
of the town of Trenton being known and designated as lots 18,19,20 & 21 in
the plan of lots laid off
On
the south side of the town of Trenton.
It further appeared to the court that said clerk had sold the Tan Yard
and the lot of ground one acre on which the same was situated to said William H.
Scrape for the sum of two hundred dollars and that same has been paid. Said Tan
Yard lot is boundary as follows. To Wit. In the county of Gibson aforesaid in
the immediately vicinity of Trenton
being known and designated as the plans of the lots laid off on the south of ___
___ lot no. 43.
It further appeard
to the court that said clerk had sold 28 ½ acres of land mentioned in
the petition to Nelson I. __ for the sum of five hundred and sixty seven dollars
and fifteen cents and that said sum paid of money had been paid by said ___ to
said clerk. The ___ and boundary of said 28 ½ acres which is in two separate
lots or tracts and is as
Following
the first parcel of said lot lies in the county of Gibson and the state
of Tennessee, south of the town of Trenton, being on the southeast corner of lot
no. 6 of subdivision Spencer D. Collins west boundary line of his 413 acre tract
___ east 36 poles . Collins line to a stake then north 59 & ¾ poles to a
stake the southeast corner of lot no. 8 aforesaid & southwest corner of ____
subdivision then west 36 poles to a stake corner of lot no s. 8,5 & 6 then
south 59 ¾ poles to the beginning
, containing 13 ¾ acres.
The second parcel is bounded as follows, lying in said county & state
and south of the town of Trenton, being
On
the southwest corner of lot no. 5 of subdivision at a stake, then south 59 &
¾ poles to a stake southeast corner
Of
Lewis corner & northwest corner of Spencer D. Collins tract, then with
Collins line west 4 poles to a stake, then north 59 & ¾ poles to stake
corner of lot no. 8,5 & 6 in subdivision then west 40 poles to the beginning
containing
15
acres more or less , and decreed.
It is wherefore ordered , assigned and decreed by the court that all the
right title interest claim on demand that the other petitioners in this cause
had in and to said tanyard and lot of ground on which the same was located as
Described
aforesaid be divided out of all the other petitioners their heirs and assign
forever and vested in him the said William H. Scrape his heirs and assign
forever.
It is further ordered, assigned and decreed by the court that all the
right title interest and claim that said petitioners have in and
to said 28 ½ acres of land described as aforesaid be on the same is
hereby divested out of them the said petitioners and their heirs and assign and
vested in him the said Nelson I.___ his heirs and assign forever.
It is further ordered by the court that _____ sufficient money of said
purchase money to pay all the cost of this proceedings that said that said clerk
pay over the ___ of said purchase money to said petitioners as they may be
_____
Entitled to the same there being for distribution
and
entitled to an equal portion each.
State
of Tennessee
I Smith Parker clerk of circuit court of Gibson County in said state, do
certify that the foregoing transcript is a true and perfect copy of the final
decree entered in our said court upon petition James D. Scrape’s heirs for
sale of Tan Yard and town lots as the same appears of record in said court.
Given under my hand at office in
Trenton this 12th day of August &
1854 & 79th year of American
Independence
Smith
Parks clerk
Filed
August 12th 1854 at 10 O’Clock A.M.
T.B. Gilchrist Reg.
James
S. Williams
Registered August 16th 1854