JOHN COOK Deed recorded in Deed Book 9, pp 531-32, Chancery Clerk, Hinds County,Raymond, MS. Transcribed by Reba G. Cook 23 Mar 2007 from mf roll # 9729 in the MDAH. Items in square brackets [ ] are uncertain.
The State of Mississippi, Hinds County. Know all men by these presents that whereas Jno. B. Peyton, John H. Fairchild, John A. [Stue], Levi Bankston Samuel Ferguson as Commissioners of Hinds County for the purpose of selling the lots in the Town of Raymond in said County did sell on the 22nd day of [Decr] 1828 to the highest Lot No. five in Square No. Sixteen in said Town for the sum of sixteen ==== dollars twenty 5 cents to John Cook who has paid the money and is now [dead] without having received titles and whereas the undersigned present Commissioners with the power to make titles to lots previously sold paid for therefore by this indenture witnesseth that we L. C Barton Richard L. Drone for and in consideration of the premises do hereby as acting Commissioners as
aforesaid and successors to said Peyton others do hereby grant, bargain, sell, convey and confirm unto Elijah Cook, Abraham Cook, James Raney and his wife Polly Raney, John Dungan and his wife Lucy Dungan Thomas Copeland and his wife Anna Copeland, William Purvis and his wife Milly Purvis, and Joseph Purvis and Elizabeth his wife, John Cook Matthew Rushings heirs being heirs of John Cook deceased their heirs and assigns the aforesaid described lot of ground bargained premises lying and being in the Town of Raymond [aforesaid]. To have and to hold the aforesaid lot of ground in the Town of Raymond unto them the said John Cooks heirs to them their heirs and assigns in fee simple forever and we the said Barton Drone do hereby as Commissioners as aforesaid convey the title of said described lot of ground forever unto the heirs of said John Cook deceased their heirs and assigns from the County of Hinds aforesaid forever.
Given under my our hands and seals the 26th day of March 1836.
/S/ L.C. Barton, Richd Drone.
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Source: Reba Cook
