Georgia
Harris County
This Indenture made the seventh day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty five between Charles L. Kennon of the County & State aforesaid of the one part and Elisha Hightower James Stanley James G Cotton John Edwards David Laney & William Marsh & Joseph J Whitaker, Trustees for the Methodist Episcopal Church of the same County & State of the above witnesseth that the said Charles L Kennon for & in consideration of the sum of thirty dollars the receipt wherein is hereby acknowledged hath bargained sold & conveyed & by these presents doth bargain sell & convey to the said Elisha Hightower James Ramsey James G Cotton John Edwards David Laney William Marsh & Joseph J Whitaker Trustees & their succesors in trust for the Methodist Episcopal Church a certain piece or parcel of land in said county being part of Lot of Land Number two hundred & sixty eight (268) in the twentieth district (20) of originally Muscogee but now Harris County & located & bounded as follows begining at a Post oak on the East end of said lot on the line between said lot number (267) two hundred & sixty seven on the road leading & running from Collins Ferry on Chatahoochee River to Whitesville, thence along said land line North twenty rods (five chains) to a Sasafras thence West twenty rods to a Red Oak thence South (37) thirty seven rods to a Hickory on the road thence along the Road said Road being the line to the begining together with the priviledge of a spring on Lot number 279 two hundred and seventy nine nearly a North West course from the Church now building on the above bargained promised & a Pasway to the same with all the appurtinances of said premises to the benifit use & behalf of the said Methodist Episcopal Church as aforesaid for the purpose of building a Church (now building) or place of worship for the members of said Church which said promises as above located and bounded and the other priviledges herein named the said Chaarles L Kennon doth hereby warrant & defend to the said Trus- tees & their successors for the use of said Methodist Episcopal Church for the purposes of Divine Worship according to the provisions of their own discipline forever in fee simple In witness whereof the said Charles L Kennon hath hereunto set his hand & seal the day & year above written in the presence of
Henry Whitaker
Charles L Kennon (LS)
James J Blanton
Georgia
Harris County
Before me a Justice of the Peace for said County personally came Henry Whitaker who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is a Subcribing witness to the within deed and that he saw Charles L Kennon sign the same for the purposes within mentioned & also saw James J Blanton subscribe his name as a witness.
Sworn to & Subscribed before me Feb 27 1836
J L Bibby J. P.
Henry Whitaker
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