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1835 POA - Coleman and Rebecca Nichols to Absalom Reaves

1835 POA - Coleman and Rebecca Nichols to Absalom Reaves

1835 POA - Coleman and Rebecca Nichols to Absalom Reaves


Bedford Co., Tennessee
Deed Book FF, p501
23 Jul 1835

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State of Kentucky }
Calloway County } Whereas William Reaves deceased late of the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee owned a tract of land situated in said County of Bedford and State of Tennessee lying between Falling Creek and the North fork of Duck Rover it being part of a 4000 acre tract Granted by the State of North Carolina to Richard Trotter Beginning at a stake the North West corner of Eppes Taylors 124 3/4 acre tract in the west boundary line of the original survey running east 162 poles to a stake thence north 110 poles to a stake thence west 162 poles to a stake, thence South 110 poles to the beginning as per deed from William Peach (sic) to the said William Reeves decd there being a small part sold off the said Tract leaving one hundred and six acres and 24 poles belonging to the heirs and Legatees of the said William Reeves decd. there being seven in number and whereas we Coleman Nichols and Rebecca Nichols his wife of the County of Calloway and State of Kentucky one of the Legatees hath an Undivided moiety of said land do hereby constitute and appoint authorize and empower Absalom Reaves of the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee our executor or Administrator our true and lawfull Attorney in fact for us and in our names and on our behalf to bargain sell and confirm by warranted deed all of our part of the above described Tract of land and in our name to perform and do any thing or thing act or acts necessary to make the same valid and effectual, and these presents shall be to him the said Absalom Reaves his Executors & Administrators a sufficient warrant and power for so doing In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 23d of July 1835
Teset E H CurdColeman Nichols (Seal)
Rebecca (her mark) Nichols (Seal)


State of Kentucky }
Calloway County } I Edmund H Curd clerk of the Calloway County Court do hereby certify that this Power of Attorney from Coleman Nichols and Rebecca Nichols his wife to Absalom Reaves was this day produced to me in my office by the said Grantors and acknowledged by the said Coleman Nichols to be his act and deed hand and seal for the purposes therein mentioned and the said Rebecca being examined by me privately and apart from her said husband, declared that she did freely and willingly seal and deliver the said writing and wished not to retract it and acknowledged the same again shewn and explained to her to be her act and deed and consented that the same might be certified accordingly. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affoxed my seal of office this 24th day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty five and in the 44th year of the Commonwealth
E. H. Curd clk CCC

State of Kentucky Calloway County I Reuben E Rowland presiding magistrate for the County aforesaid do certify that Edmund H Curd who has given the preceeding certificate is and was at the time of signing the same acting clerk of said Court and that his attestation is in due form of Law. Given under my hand this (blank) day of July 1835
R E Rowland J P (Seal)

Source

Bedford Co., Tennessee Deed Book FF, p501