Jacob Mathews (3rd Generation)

This indenture made and entered into this twenty sixth day of September eighteen hundred and eighteen between Jacob Mathews and his wife of Bourbon County and state of Kentucky of the one part and Abram Buford of Fayette County of the other part Witneſseth that the said Jacob Mathews and Catharine his wife for and in consideration of the sum of one thousand dollars to them in hand paid the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged from the said Abraham Buford have granted bargained and sold aliened and confirmed and by these presents doth hereby grant bargain and sell alien release and confirm unto the said Abraham Buford all that tract or parcel of land situate lying and being partly in the County of Bourbon and partly in the County of Fayette and on the head waters of Davids fork and Green creek and bounded as follows to wit Beginning at a black sugartree corner formerly to Rice survey being near a school house also corner to Henry Foster running thence south seventy two degrees fifteen minutes East sixty and one half poles to a black ash thence on the same course fifty five and three fourth poles to a stake near a black ash marked as a corner between said Mathews and Wm Hunt thence north thirty eight and one third degrees East thirty eight and seven eights poles to a stake near a sugartree marked as a corner between the said Mathews and Wm Hunt in a line of Levi Crose thence north 49° 37” West one hundred and seventy six poles to a stone corner to Charles Hedges thence south 34° 37 West sixty five poles to a stake corner to the aforesaid Henry Foster thence to the Beginning containing by estimation seventy two acres one Rood eighteen poles together with all improvements water ways water courses profits and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining unto the said land and premises belonging together with all reversions remainders of the said Jacob Mathews and Catherine his wife to have and to hold the land hereby conveyed with all and singular the premises with every part and parcel thereof with every of the appurtenances unto the said Abram Buford and his heirs forever and the said Jacob Mathews and Catharine his wife their Heirs Executors and Administrators do covenant and agree to and with the said Abram Buford for themselves their heirs Executor and Administrators that the premises hereby conveyed now are and forever shall remain free of and from all former and other gifts grants bargains and sales trades and charges whatsoever done or suffered to be done by them the said Jacob Mathews and Catherine his wife nevertheleſs it is to be understood that if the said land and premises or any part thereof shall be lost under any other claim or claims the purchase money agreeable to the quantity lost or gained shall be refunded at the rate of thirty five dollars per acre without any interest by the said Jacob Mathews and Catharine his wife their heirs Executors or Administrators unto the said Abram Buford his heirs Executors or Administrators or aſsigns In Witneſs whereof the said Jacob Mathews and Catherine his wife have set their hands and fixed their seals the day and year first above written

Jacob Mathews (Seal)

Catherine Mathews (Seal)

Bourbon County Court Clerks Office ſct September 26^th 1818

This Deed of bargain and sale from Jacob Mathews and Catharine his wife to Abram Buford was this day acknowledged before me by said Jacob and Catharine to be their act and deed and said Catharine being examined by me prvily and apart from her said Husband as the law directs declared that she freely and voluntarily relinquished her right of Dower to the within mentioned premises and the same is thereupon duly recorded in this office

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Maſsena Garrard D,C,B,C,

The West half of the South East quarter of Section thirty six, in Township fifty nine North, of Range Six West, containing eight Acres.

The East half of the North East quarter of Section 28 Township 61 Range 7 West in the district of lands subject to sale at Palmyra Missouri containing 80 acres

North East quarter of the North West quarter of Section 12 in Township 59 Range 9 West in the district of lands subject to sale at Palmyra Missouri containing 40 acres