Registered May 6th 1851
At 10 O Clock A.M.

 This indenture made and entered into this 23rd day of April in one thousand eight hundred & fifty one between Mark PATTERSON Sr. of the County of Henderson and State of Tennessee & Mark PATTERSON Jr. of the County of Weakley & State aforesaid of the other part.  Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred and sixty-two dollars & a half paid in hand to him the said Mark PATTERSON Sr. paid by said Mark PATTERSON Jr. the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged.  Therefore the said Mark PATTERSON Sr. hath granted & sold & doth by these presents give, grant, bargain and sell & convey to the said Mark PATTERSON Jr, his heirs and assigns forever, a certain tract or parcel of land situated in Weakley County, State of Tennessee in the 13th district, range 2, section five containing 75 acres, it being a part of a 4360 acres entered in the name of John McIVER, No. of Entry 523, the said 75 acres bounded as follows, to wit, beginning at a stake, ash, dogwood & poplar pointers on Riddle PATTERSON's south east corner, thence south 49 1/3 poles to a stake, thence west 173 poles to a stake, thence north 69 1/3 poles to a white oak, white oak and beech pointers, thence east 83 poles to a stake, two elms & dogwood pointers, thence north 5 1/3 poles to a stake, two hickory & white oak pointers, thence east 45 poles to iron wood, elm and hickory pointers, thence south 40 poles to a white oak, dogwood, poplar & black gum pointers, thence east 45 poles to the beginning.  To have and to hold the aforesaid tract or parcel of land with all rights and privileges unto the said Mark PATTERSON Jr. or his heirs and assigns forever and the said Mark PATTERSON Sr. doth covenant and agree to and with the said Mark PATTERSON Jr. his heirs and assigns  against the claim or claims of all and every person or persons whomsoever in witness whereof said Mark PATTERSON Sr. has hereunto set his hand and seal on the day and year written,  Signed, seal and acknowledged in the presence of us
Mark PATTERSON     Seal
Test.  G.W. CAMPBELL
          Samuel BAKER
                        his
          Thomas  x  PATTERSON
                       mark

[Riddle, Thomas, and Mark Junior were all the sons of Mark Patterson Senior, who resided in Weakley  County, Tennessee.  George Washington Campbell and Samuel Baker were his sons-in-law.]
 
 

Submitted by Nancy Denty Breidenthal