Source: Sumner County Archives Dd Bk 68, Pg 504
Contributed by Joyce Stark Blocker ([email protected])
© 2001
Know all men by these presents that we J. T. Bruce, J. W. Bruce, J. A. Bruce, J. H. Bruce, W. B.
Bruce and Florence Hughes, heirs of J. A. Bruce deceased , also Adeline Bruce, J. R. Perry and
Mary Bruce heirs of Harriet Bruce also J. M. Bruce, A. F. Bruce, Tilda Bruce and M. C. Lassiter
in consideration of having received our portion and allotment of land of J. W. Bruce, deceased, do
hereby devise release and forever quit claim unto Peter Lewis and wife M. J. Lewis, their heirs
forever all our title interest and estate, legal and equitable, in the following premises to wit: A
certain tract or parcel of land the same being the allotment to Peter Lewis and wife of J. W.
Bruces land situated and lying in the State of Tennessee, Sumner Co., in Civil District No. 6 on
the head waters of Manskers creek and bounded as follows: Beginning in center of road and
branch. Thence with road N. 40 W 10 poles to a point in center of road. thence with road N 59 W
12 poles to a point in center of road and branch. Thence N 28 W 9 poles and 8 links to a point in
center of road thence N 65 E 82 poles to a stake two poles south of a hickory corner. Thence S
3.9 W 80 poles to the beginning. Containing by estimation 9-1/2 acres.
In testimony whereof we have this 21st day of May 1896 subscribed our names and seal. This 16
day of May 1903.
J. M. Bruce
M. R. Bruce
A. F. Bruce
Her
M. C. X Lassiter
Mark
State of Tennessee } Personally appeared before me D. A. Montgomery a Sumner County }
Notary Public in and for said State and County, the within named A. F. Bruce, J. M. Bruce & wife
M. V. Bruce the bargainors with whom I am personally acquainted and who acknowledged that
they executed the within deed instrument for the purposes therein contained. And M. V. Bruce,
wife of the said J. M. Bruce having personally appeared before me privately and apart from her
husband the said M. V. Bruce acknowledged the execution of said deed to have (sic) done by her
freely, voluntarily and understandingly without compulsion or constraint from her said husband
and for the purposes therein expressed. Witness my hand and official seal at
Lohman (?) Tennessee this 16 day of May 1903
{ Seal } D. A. Montgomery
Notary Public
State of Tennessee } Personally appeared before me D. A. Sumner County } Montgomery, a
Notary Public in and for said County and State the within named M. C. Lassiter the bargainer
with whom I am personally acquainted and who adknowledged that she executed the within deed
instrument for the purposes therein contained. Witness my hand and official seal at Worshams
Tennessee this 5th day of June 1903.
{ Seal } D. A. Montgomery
Notary Public
Recd for registration Feb 17, 1914, at 3.45 oclock P.M.
Registered and Examined Feb 18, 1914.
A. C. Dobbins