NewtonCoDeedBook_B_338

Henry W.
Sudduth
to
Emily
Conn,
bill
of sale.
Filed for
record
January
the 30th,
at 11
o'clock
A. M.,
A. D.
1854.
John
Moore,
County Clerk,
County Court, Newton County.
The State of Texas,
County of Newton } Know all men by these
presents that we, Henry W. Sudduth and Sally Sudduth, husband
and wife, both of the county and state aforesaid, for and in
consideration of the sum of one hundred dollars in cash
to us in hand paid by Emily Conn, the wife of Joseph
Conn of the county aforesaid, the receipt of which is hereby
acknowledged and acquitted, and the further consideration
of love and affection for our daughter, do grant, bargain,
sell, give, donate, transfer, and convey unto the said
Emily Conn all our right, title, claim, interest, and demand
of, in or to a certain negro girl, a slave for life
named Lilly, aged about four years. To have and to hold
the negro slave aforesaid, together with all the rights, privileges
and increase appertaining or accruing to said slave,
to the only proper use, benefit and behoof of the said
Emily Conn and her heirs or assigns forever. And
we furthermore agree to warrant and defend the title
to the property aforesaid from and against the claim or
claims of any and all persons claiming by, from or
under us, and from and against the claim or claims of
any and all persons whatever claiming or to claim the same.
In testimony of the foregoing, we hereto place our signatures
and scrawls instead of seals on this, the twenty-second day
of September A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-three.
Witnesses present,
R. D. Wright,
J. T. Evans,
J. C. Lawson.
Henry W. Sudduth {Seal}.
Her mark, Sally Sudduth {Seal}.
The State of Texas,
Newton County } Before me, T. S. McFarland, a Notary
Public of the county aforesaid, personally
appeared Henry W. Sudduth and Sally Sudduth, his wife,
both of whom I know, and after signing their names to the
within deed of sale of or for a negro, acknowledged their signatures
aforesaid to be their voluntary act and deed for the
uses and purposes expressed in the instrument. And having
examined the said Sally Sudduth aforesaid separately and apart from
her husband aforesaid, and the nature of the instrument aforesaid being
fully explained to her, she acknowledged that she had voluntarily
and willingly signed and sealed the same and that she
wished not to retract it. To certify which, I hereto
place my signature and affix my official
seal on this, the 22nd day of September
A. D. 1853.
T. S. McFarland,
Notary Public.