Source: Lawrence County Recorder’s Office, Book 24 pg. 247-248
31-1-15 Pt NW 30 – 200 16 June 1866
Jesse Ballard & wife “Quit Claim.”
To
Commissioners Lawrence Co. Ohio (Stamped 50cts)
Know all men by these presents that Jesse Ballard and Martha Ballard, his wife of the State of Illinois, in consideration of the sum of Two hundred dollars to us paid by the County Commissioners of the County of Lawrence State of Ohio, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged do hereby remise, release and forever quit claim to the said County Commissioners and their successors in Office forever all of our right, title, and interest in the Estate legal and equitable in and to the following premises with which the appurtenances thereunto belonging, Situate in the County of Lawrence State of Ohio, and in Upper Township bounded and described as follows to wit:
Being a part of the northwest quarter of Section number thirty-one (31) of Township number (1) Range number eighteen (18) beginning at the southeast corner of the Infirmary Lands in the Road:
Thence north 75: East 1088 links to Isaac C. Betts corner:
thence with said Betts line North 31: east 626 links to a stone:
thence north 9 1/2: west 730 links to a stake:
thence north 42 1/2: east 750 links to a stake:
thence north 5: east 1108 links to a Hickory 12 inches in diameter on the line between the Hecla Company and the heirs of Elisha Mayhew Dec’d: thence west 1220 links to James Pierce’s line:
thence with said line, south 2050 links to a stone:
Pierce’s southeast corner:
thence South 7:
west 405 links.
South 10:
east 186 links South 35 1/2:
east 229 links.
South 2:
West 225 links.
South 5:
west 150 links to the beginning and contains 30 acres, more or less, and all the estate title and interest of the said Jesse Ballard and Martha, his wife either in law or in equity of in and do the said premises together with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging and all the rents, issues and profits thereof;
To have and to hold the same to the only proper use of the said County Commissioners and their Successors in Office forever.
In witness whereof, the said Jesse Ballard and Martha Ballard, his wife who hereby releases her right and expectancy of ______ in the said premises, have hereunto set their hands and seals this 16th day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Signed, sealed, and acknowledged,
in the presence of us:
Jesse Ballard [seal]
J. W. P. Davis
Joseph P. Bowling
Martha Ballard [seal]
State of Illinois, Clay County [ss]
Be it remembered that on the 16th day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public for said County, personally came Jesse Ballard and Martha Ballard, the grantors in the foregoing Deed, and acknowledged the signing and sealing thereof to be their voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.
And the said Mary Ballard, wife of the said Jesse Ballard being examined by me separate and apart from her said husband, and the contents of said Deed being by me made known and explained to her, as the Statute directs, declared that she did voluntarily sign seal and acknowledge the same, and that she is still satisfied therewith as her act and deeds for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Notarial seal on the day and year aforesaid.
John W.P. Davis N.P.
State of Ohio Lawrence County SS Recorder’s Office
Received and recorded July 10th, 1866
James A. Bartram, Recorder
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