Source: Sumner Co. Archives Deed Book 37, pages 453 & 454
Contributed by Joyce Stark Blocker ([email protected])
© March 2001
Know all that we John A. Bruce & A. M. Bruce, S. L. Bruce and Adaline Bruce, James R. Perry
& Elizabeth C. Warren have this day sold and conveyed to Wm. H. Draper for and in
consideration of ____ hundred Sixty dollars & other lands valued at four hundred dollars the
receipt of which is hereby acknowledged all of our right, title and interest to the tract of land
known as the Thos. Perry lands on which the said William now lives lying on the waters of
Madison Creek & in the 6th Civil District of Sumner County Tenn. Conveyed to Sallie Perry by
her father Jess Joyner adjoining the land of T. Comb, M. J. Patton & others. We bind ourselves
and our heirs to warrant and defend the title to the said Wm. H. Draper his heirs and assigns
against the claims of all persons in witness whereof we have this day signed our names and affixed
our seals on this November the 8th 1880.
In the presence of
Test
J. B. Crunk
S. L. Bruce
S. L. Bruce.......{Seal}
R. A. Bruce.......{Seal}
Mrs. J. A. Bruce.....{Seal}
A. M. Bruce........{Seal}
Elizabeth C. (her X mark) Warren.....{Seal}
J. R. Perry.......{Seal}
State of Tennessee...}
Sumner County..........}
Personally appeared before me O. H. Foster Clerk of the County Court of said County the within
named S. L. Bruce the bargainer with whom I am personally acquainted, who acknowledged the
execution of the foregoing instrument for the purposes therein contained.
Witness my hand at office this 30 May 1881
O. H. Foster, Clerk
State of Tennessee.....}
Sumner County............}
To J. B. Crunk, Esq.
You are hereby authorized and empowered to take the examination of Mrs. Artamisia Bruce wife
of Jno A. Bruce and Adeline Bruce, wife of S. L. Bruce, privately and apart from her husband
relative to the free execution of the annexed deed, and the same, so taken, to certify under hour
hand and seal givenunder my hand at office 30 day May 1881.
O. H. Foster, Clerk
State of Tennessee....}
Sumner County...........}
Mrs. Artamisia Bruce, wife of John A. Bruce, and Adaline Bruce, wife of S. L. Bruce, having
personally appeared before me and having by virtue of the authority in me vested been examined
privately and apart from her said husbands and they having acknowledged the due execution of
the annexed deed by them freely, voluntarily, and understandingly, without compulsion or
constraint by their said husbands and for the purposes therein contained, the same is therefore
certified.
Witness my hand and seal, this June 1st 1881.
J. B. Crunk, J. P. {Seal}
State of Tennessee....}
Sumner County...........}
Personally appeared before me O. H. Foster Clerk of the County Court of said County, J. B.
Crunk and S. L. Bruce subscribing witnesses in the attached deed who being first duly sworn
depose and say that they are personally acquainted with the within named J. A. Bruce & Elizabeth
Warren & J. A. Perry the bargainors and that they acknowledge the same in their presence to be
their act and deed
for the purposes therein contained, Witness my hand at office this 30 day of June 1884
O. H. Foster, Clerk
Recd for Registration June 7th 1886 at 1 oclock PM
J. L. Gray Register
Registered and Examined June 8th 1886.