S.D. Cabanis Executor State of Alabama
of Samuel Townsend died Jackson County
to deed
Miles Moody
James W Moody
Know all men by these presents that whereas
under an order of the Chancery Court of the
fifth District of the Northern Division
of the State of Alabama at Huntsville
made at December Ten 1870 thereof in the cause, therein sending in
which the undersigned as Executor of Samuel Townsend died
is Complainant and Wesley Townsend and others are defendants.
I, Septimas D Cabanis, Executor of the will of Said decedant
and complainant in said cause after giving notice of the time
place and terms of sale in comformity with said order did sell
at public auction at the Court house in the County of Jackson
and State of Alabama as the property of the estate of Samuel
Townsend deceased, the following tracts or parcels of land
situate in said county of Jackson and containing about
two thousand three hundred and twenty acres be the same
more or less big, all of section no. eight, the north half
of section no. seventeen, the north west quarter and
the west half of the south west quarter of section no.
nine, the south west quarter the west half of the south
east quarter and the south east quarter of the north west
quarter of section no. five ^S.E. 1/4 & S.E. 1/4 of Sec. 1/4 Sec 6,
the north east and south east
quarter, the east half of the north west quarter and the
north east quarter of the south west quarter of section
no. seven, in township no. three of Range Six East, the
west half of the south east quarter and the south east
quarter of the south east quarter of section no. one, and
the north half of the north east quarter of section no.
twelve in Township no. three of Range five East of
the Huntsville Maridian (and Known as Comparing
a plantation owned by said Samuel Townsend at the
time of his death. Sold by his executor in November 1860,
and bought again by the undersigned executor as aforesaid
for the benefit of the estate of Said testator, at a sale thereof
made at Scottsboro under a decree of the Chancery Court
of the Nineth District of the Northern Division aforesaid
by Patrick Ragland as Register of Said Event as
Evidenced by the deed of Said Register of date June 24th
1873, which is of record in Said County of Jackson
on Monday, February 6th, 1871 to Miles Moody and James W. Moody
as joint purchasers at the price of Eleven Thousand and
four hundred Dollars payable one half each and the
ballance in two equal installments, one and two years
with interest from date of sale. They being the last and
highest bidder at that sum, and said lands being sold
in grap without compensation to either party for exes(?)
or eliminations(?) in quality. Now whereas said Miles Moody
and James W Moody have paid said purchase money in full
now therefore in consideration of the premises and the
full payment of said purchase money the said Septimas
D. Cabanis as executor as aforesaid does hereby give
grant bargain sell and convey to said Miles Moody
and James W Moody the above described parcels of
land with the tenements and appertences thereunto
belonging, to have and to hold the same to them said
Miles Moody and James W Moody and their heirs
and assigns forever as fully as he is authorized to
convey the same either by the will of said Samuel
Townsend, deceased, or by authority of said Chancery
Court. In witness whereof he hereunto sets his hand
and seal. This the 22nd day of September 1873.
Witness S. D. Cabanis, Executor (Seal)
W. S. Clay of Samuel Townsend died
F. P. Ward
The State of Alabama
Madison County I, Louis M. Douglass, Judge
of the court of probate in and
for said county and state, hereby certify that
S. D. Cabanis, Executor of Samuel Townsend, died,
whose name is signed to the foregoing conveyand(?)
and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on
this day, that being informed of the contents of the
conveyance, Executes the same voluntarily on
the day the same bears date given under my hand
this 27th day of December A.D. 1873.
Louis M Douglass
Probate Judge
The State of Alabama
Jackson County I, David Tate, Judge of the Court
of Probate in and for said county
and state hereby certify that the foregoing deed of
conveyance was filed in my office for registration
on the 5th day of January 1874, and was duly vended and
conferred(?) David Tate
Probate Judge