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This indenture made this 17 day of
February in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and thirty four, between CARMI JONES, and
HENRIETTA his
wife, HILLARY JONES, NOAH JONES, REBECCA JONES his wife
and JAMES JONES
and ELIZABETH JONES his wife, all of Tippecanoe County and
State of Indiana,
and the legal heirs of WILLIAM JONES late of Tippecanoe
County deceased,
of the first part and JOSEPH HAWKINS of the county and
state aforesaid
of the second part, Witnesseth that the said parties of the
first part,
for and in consideration of the sum of four hundred
dollars good and lawful
money to them in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby
confessed and
acknowledged, have granted bargained, sold, aliened [sic],
conveyed, confirmed
and forever quit claimed, and by these presents do grant
bargain sell,
alien [sic], convey, confirm and forever quit claim unto
JOSEPH HAWKINS
the party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, all
the right, title,
interest, and claim both in law and equity in and to
certain parcels or
tracts of land of which the said WILLIAM JONES Deceased,
was seized and
possessed in fee simple at the time of his death, being
and lying in the
county of Tippecanoe and state aforesaid, described as
follows to wit:
The West half of the South West quarter of Section Number
Twelve in Township
Number Twenty two north and Range Number 5 west: of and
also the West half
of the North West quarter of Section Number Thirteen in
Township Number
Twenty two north and Range Number five west: of the land
offered for sale
at the land office at Crawfordsville in the state of
Indiana. To have and
to hold the premises aforesaid with all the appurtenances
[sic] thereunto
belonging to the only proper use benefit and behalf of the
said JOSEPH
HAWKINS his heirs and assigns forever: And the said CARMI
JONES, HILLARY
JONES, NOAH JONES, and JAMES JONES, as the heirs at law of
the said WILLIAM
JONES deceased, for themselves their heirs executors and
administrators
covenant and agree to and with the said JOSEPH HAWKINS his
heirs and assigns
that the said WILLIAM JONES deceased was lawfully seized
in fee simple
of the premises aforesaid, that they are the heirs at law
of the said WILLIAM
JONES deceased and as such are each and every one of them
entitled to
one undivided ninth part of the above described parcels of
land, and that
they have good right and lawful authority to sell dispose
of and convey
the same in manner and form as here in specified: that the
said premises
are free from all encumbrances; (the dower of ELIZABETH
JONES widow of
said WILLIAM JONES deceased excepted) And that they further covenant and agree free themselves their heirs executors and administrators that they shall and will warrant and forever defend the said undivided parts and shares of the above described premises to the said JOSEPH HAWKINS his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims of themselves and their heirs and of all persons claiming under them: and the said HENRIETTA JONES, the wife of the said CARMI JONES, and ELIZABETH JONES the wife of the said JAMES JONES, and REBECCA the wife of the said NOAH JONES, do hereby relinquish all their right and title of dower in and to the above described premise Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of : JOHN PROVALT, THOMAS HAWKINS Signed: CARMI JONES, HENRIETTA [X] JONES
Before me JOHN PROVALT, Associate Judge within and for said county personally came CARMI JONES, HENRIETTA, his wife, HILLARY JONES, NOAH JONES, REBECCA, his wife, JAMES JONES ELIZABETH, his wife the grantors named in the above deed of conveyance and being by me examined concerning the same acknowledge it to be their voluntary act and deed for the use and purposes therein mentioned and the said JONES and their wives having been examined separately and apart from their said husbands as required by law touching the above deed claim that they signed sealed and delivered the same of their own voluntary free will and accord without any coercion or compulsion of their said husbands and that they thereby relinquish all their right and claim to dower in the said premises. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventeenth of February ad 1834. Signed: JOHN PROVALT, Associate Judge
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