Abner Bankston to William Fuller & Alexander Ragland (Deed)
Submitted by
Butts County
Written: December 14 1840
Recorded: June 9 1841
GEORGIA
Butts County Recorded 9th June 1841
This indenture made and entered into this fourteenth day of December in the year
of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Forty, between Abner Bankston of said County of
the one part and William Fuller of Richmond county and State and Alexander
Ragland of Morgan County and State. Stage Contractors using the firm name &
style of Fuller & Ragland of the other part. Witnesseth that for and in
consideration of this sum of one dollar to the said Abner Bankston in hand
paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledges also for the further
consideration that the said fuller & Ragland shall cause to be built upon the
premises herein after mentioned a stable capable of containing sixteen horses &
a log cabin for an osler (*) residence � all at their expense � except the
timber necessary to construct the same which they are at liberty to cut as the
lands adjoining said premises of said Abner Bankston he the said Abner Bankston
doth lease hereby to the said Fuller & Ragland and their assigns two acres of
land being part of the lot whereas William Lyons now lives in the county of
Butts aforesaid through which two acres passes the public road leading from the
Indian Springs to Phillips Bridge on the Towaliga River, being about equally
divided by said road, more particular land in acks (?) from the date the first
day of July eighteen hundred and forty three, free from all rent charge and
after the said last mentioned period the said Fuller & Ragland are to have the
right to retain the possession of said premises to themselves or to their assign
for the purpose of keeping a stable for stage horses. As is more the design &
of furnishing a hand for an osler (*) upon the payment of sixty dollars annually
to the said Abner Bankston his heirs executors & administrators and the said
Abner Bankston doth hereby covenant to the said Fuller & Ragland & their
assigns to do and perform the matters & things so herein stipulated & contains
in his part and for which he binds himself his heirs executors & administrators
formed by these presents. In witness whereof the said Abner Bankston hath
hereunto set his hand & seal the day & year first above written in presence of:
David Cardine
James S. Bankston Abner Bankston (SEAL)
E. H. Doolittle
Should Fuller & Ragland not want to rent the said stable &e, after this contract
said Bankston has the privilege of renting to any person he may think proper but
as to the use of Fuller & Ragland, they can have as specified.
olster (*) - Holster-- A groom who took care of horses, often at an inn The
"H" is probably silent and the clerk spelled it without the "H".
GEORGIA
Jasper County
Before me Charles S. Jordan a justice of the Inferior Court in and for said
County appeared in person Emial Doolittle, one of the subscribing witnesses to
the foregoing deed of lease who being duly sworn saith that he saw Abner
Bankston sign seal & deliver the same for the purposes therein expressed, and
that Daniel Cardin and James S. Bankston deponasit(?) subscribed the same as
witnesses in the presence of each other. Sworn to and subscribed before me this
15th June 1841
Ch. J. Jordan, JIC E. H. Doolittle
Recorded 23rd June 1841
Book F � Page 32 & 33
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