KENTUCKY COURT of APPEALS DEED BOOK Vol III (Cook & Cook) pg391
Intendure, November 18, 1807, JOHN REED of Philadelphia, merchant, and RACHEL REED, his wife, to JAMES GLINTWORTH of the same city, broker. Whereas by a patent dated May 16, 1793 from Kentucky, by virtue of part of a land office military warrant, there was granted to JOHN REED and STANDISH FORDE, assignee of WILLIAM OLIVER, in the joint partnership name of REED & FORDE, a tract of 1,776 acres surveyed May 5, 1792, being in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia State Line, on the north side of Cumberland River. Said tract beginning above the mouth of Rock Run, corner to MARY KELLAR's 413 acre survy, thence with the river southwest, and bounded by the mouth of Bear Creek.
And also by a patent dated May 16, 1793, from Kentucky, on a military warrent, to REED & FORDE as assignees of BENJAMIN EDMUNDSON, a tract of 705 acres surveyed May 7, 1792, in the same district, on the north side of Cimberland River, beginning on the bank of the river at the upper end of the first bottom below the mouth of Grassy Creek, thence dowtn the river northeast.
Also, a certain tract patented December 17, 1798 by Kentucky to REED & FORDE, as assignees of BENJAMIN EDMUNDSON, 900 acres surveyed November 17, 1797, in the same district, on the north side of the Cumberland River, beginning at th eupper end of the first large bottom above the mouth of Wolf Creek, and at the upper end of a long shoal in the river, thence down the river southwest.
Also , by patent dated May 13, 1801, from Kentucky to REED & FORDE, on six military warrants as assignees of WILLIAM CROGHAN, who was assignee of WILLIAM PENNOCK by this attornerys RICHARD TERRILL and OWEN GWATHMEY, a tract of 1,000 acres surveyed June 14, 1792, in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line, on the waters of Elk Pond and Thompsons Creek, branches of Pond River, beginning 160 poles northeastwardly from a Clay Lick on the rod from Barnetts Station on Pond River to Cany Creek Station.
And whereas STANDISH FORDE died on April 29, 1806, and JOHN REED became entitled to the said tracts by right of survivorship. Now this indenture witnesse that in consideraton of $4,381, REED and wife have sold and conveyed the said tracts to GLINTWORTH.
Witnessed by AARON VANARSDALL, JOHN FRITZ, and BENJAMIN NORWICK. Acknowledged in Philadelphis, November 20, 1807, at which tine RACHEL REED relinquished her rights of dower. Recorded by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, January 16, 1819.
Sharon's Note: *although these people did not live in Barren Co, the land being conveyed lies in the counties of Barren & Cumberland.* |
Reed-Glintworth