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Land 1841 TN Hamilton Clift William


Description
DB 4-440


Source Text
9/6/1841. Deed of Partition.

Robert C. McRee to William Clift: 3500 acres in 2 tracts. Tract #1: 1500 acres, head of Spring where Clift & McRee now live, Soddy Creek, TN River, corner tract Clift & McRee bought of George McGill, Shipley's line, Opossum Creek, Pendergrass's line, mouth of a hollow near road leading to McGill's ferry on TN River, top of steep ridge opposite to M. Meer's Mills, Spring Branch, Benjamin Wallace line, McRee line. Tract #2: 2000 acres, Sale Creek, TN River, mouth of hollow below Spring Branch, line of equal distance between Sale Creek and Opossum Creek, road that leads from Heckman's to Wiley's, Opossum Creek, line of 20,000 acre survey, Sale Creek.

William Clift to Robert C. McRee: 4000 acres in 4 tracts. Tract #1: 400 acres, head of Spring where Clift & McRee now live, corner to James Verner, W bank of Soddy Creek. Tract #2: 600 acres, TN River just below the mouth of Soddy Creek, Carter's line, William Clift's line. Tract #3: 1500 acres, William Clift's corner on the W bank of Soddy Creek near an old Stone Coal House just below McRee's Mill, Benjamin Wallace line, Little Soddy Creek, John Brown's line, Big Soddy Creek, line of 20,000 acre survey, Opossum Creek, Nimrod Pendergrass's line, Ridcle Hollow near road leading to McGill's Ferry. Tract #4: 1500 acres, TN River below mouth of a spring branch about 646 poles below the mouth of Sale Creek, mouth of Opossum Creek, 50 poles below where Edward Wyley now lives, road leading from Wyley's to Hickman's on Sale Creek, line halfway between Opossum and Sale Creeks, William Clift's corner.

Witness Jame T. Gardenhue, Thomas Windham. Proved by William Clift & Robert C. McRee in Harrison 9/6/1841. Regd 9/26/1841 Book D p. 424-427.