From: KyArchives [archives@genrecords.org] Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 11:33 AM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Curry.John.Et.Al-Felker.H.J.Et.Al.1858.Bullitt.DEED John et al Curry - H. J. et al Felker March 22, 1858 Bullitt County KyArchives Deed Written: March 22, 1858 Recorded: May 31, 1858 Bullitt County, Kentucky Deed Book O, page 226. Transcribed October 9, 2003 by Gary Gerlach. Comments and corrections appear in [brackets]. [In the left margin: "H. J. Felker & wife to Deed John & Jms B. Curry" and "Fees Paid 5 dols" and below this, "The purchase money is all paid on the land named in this deed & the title is discharged Sept. 24 1863. H. J. Felker"] "This deed of conveyance made this 22d day of March 1858 by H. J. Felker & Jamima his wife of the County of Bullitt and State of Kentucky of the One part, and John Curry and James B. Curry of the City of Louisville and State aforesaid of the second part, Witnesses, That the party of the first part, for and in considerations of the sum of Four Thousand Dollars ($4000.) paid and to be paid as follows, towit; One Thousand Dollars paid in hand at the time of the execution & delivery hereof, and the joint notes of the party of the Second part, three in number, to the party of the first part for One Thousand ($1000.) dollars each, date the fourth day of April 1858, due at one, two and three years from date, bearing interest from the date, and the better to secure the payment of the said three notes a lien is hereby retained on the property covered, Have bargained and sold, and do hereby convey and confirm to the party of the second part, the four following described and bounded tracts of land, lying and being in the Knobs of Bullitt County, Kentucky, Containing in the aggregate Four Hundred Acres, be the same more or less. This first tract contains One Hundred & sixty-seven Acres, three quarters, three quarters & fourteen poles, and is bounded as follows, towit: Beginning at the Poplar and sugar tree, Lewis Moore's Corner: thence S 70 East 80 poles to two sugar trees, thence S 60 East, 25 poles to an ash, elm, sycamore: thence S. 57 E. 33 poles to a beech & ash: thence S 44 E. 34 poles to a beech & buckeye: thence S. 60 E. 48 poles to a sugar tree and stake in Richard Joyce's line: thence with said line reversed, N 25 E 24 poles to two beeches, thence N 62 poles to 3 beeches, John Hansfield's Corner: thence with his line N 35 W 208 poles to a stake in Lewis Moore's line; thence with the same S 35 W 178 poles to the Beginning. The Second tract contains One Hundred & twenty Acres, and is bounded as follows: Beginning at the forded Lynn [sp?] and Dogwood, corner to Vaughn's 636 acres, and corner to Richd Joyce on the top of a ridge: thence N 28.15 W (for 29) 154 ½ poles to a large double sycamore & elm on the south bank of big run, in the bottom: thence down said run N 89.15 46 poles to a stake: thence up the ridge S. 46 1/3 W 48 ¼ poles to a dogwood & beech on the side of a ridge: thence with the ridge the following courses. S 80 W 29 poles to a hickory, N 41 W 32 poles to a small hickory and dogwood, W 81 W 20 poles 16 ½ links to a beech, S 81 W 8 poles to 2 beeches: S 30 W 11 poles to a white oak & hickory S 26 E 37 ½ poles to a sugar tree & hickory: S 70 E 14 ½ poles to an elm, S 12 E 25 poles to a hickory & small black oak, S 55 E 14 ½ poles to a white oak, N 81 E 68 poles to a dogwood & beech, S 8 poles to a hickory, S 63 E 70 poles to a stake, S 88 E 25 ½ poles to a white oak in Joyce & Vaughan's line, thence with said line N 35 E 26 poles to the Beginning. The third tract contains 88 acres more or less and is bounded as follows. Beginning at two Beeches in a hollow, corner to the 167 acre tract & to F Hansfield's land; thence with said Hansfield's line, S 87 ½ (for 88) E 50 poles to a large beech & sugar tree; thence N 80 E (for 74) 12 poles to a beech near a sugar tree in Hansfield's line, corner to S. Todd; thence with Todd's line S 3 E 40 ½ poles to a blue ash on a drain; thence S 13 ½ W 20 poles to a large poplar & chestnut oak on a knob, thence S 7 W 35 ½ poles to a beech and white walnut in a hollow; thence N 89 W 34 ½ poles to a beech; thence S 89 W 24 poles to two beeches, corner to George Joyce's land & corner to said Todd, thence with said Joyce's line S 65 W 52 poles to a hickory and two beeches on the side of a knob; thence N 43 W 47 ½ poles to two chestnut oaks and a hickory in R. Joyce's line on a ridge, thence with Sd R. Joyce's line N 25 E 31 poles to said Felker's corner, a sugar tree; thence with Felker's line to the Beginning. The fourth tract is bounded as follows. Beginning at a Poplar & Sugar tree, corer to Lewis Moore's heirs & H. Felker - running south 69 E 80 poles to a sugar tree on the branch, thence S 60 1/3 E 27 poles to an ash, elm & sycamore, thence S 55 E 34 poles to a beech & ash stump; thence S 42 ½ E 36 poles to a beech and buckeye; thence S 13 E 1 pole 19 links to a poplar; thence S 86 W 30 poles to 2 hickories & a sugar tree; thence S 64 W 20 poles to a poplar & beech; thence S 49 W 13 poles to a forked Lynn [sp?], thence N 28.18 W 124 poles to the Beginning - But out of these boundries is excepted a tract of 15 acres more or less here to fore sold and conveyed by the party of the first part to Richard L. Moore by deed recorded in the clerk's office of the Bullitt County Court. The quantity conveyed being 400 acres more or less as before stated herein with all and singular the appurtenances to each said tracts of land belonging to the said parties of the second part, and their heirs and assigns forever and the parties of the first part do hereby covenant and agree to and with the parties of the second part, that the title to the foregoing tracts of land, they will forever warrant and defend to the party of the second part and their heirs and assigns forever against the claims of all and every person claiming or to claim the same. In testimony whereof the party of the first part have hereto set their lands and seal this day and date first above written. H. J. Felker {seal} Jamima Felker {seal} State of Kentucky Bullitt County Set I, Robert F. Samuels, Clerk of the County Court for said County, do Certify, that on the 3rd day of April 1858 the foregoing deed from H. J. and Jamima Felker to John & James B. Curry was produced tome in my office, and the same was acknowledged by the said H. J. & Jamima Felker to be their seal & deed, whereupon the same day was ordered to be recorded, which with this certificate is truly done in my office. This 31st day of May 1858. R. F. Samuels, Clk Submitted by: Gary Gerlach ggerlach@charter.net Additional Comments: Son James Butler Curry also Grantee. Wife Jamima also Grantor. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/