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This Indenture made and entered into this 3d day
of May in the year of our Lord. One thousand Eight
hundred and twenty five by and between Green Clay
and Sally his wife of the county of Madison and
State of Kentucky. of the one part. and Mathew
Johnson of the County and State aforesaid of the
other part. Witnesseth that whereas the said Green
Clay has heretofore purchased out the interest of.
Alexander S. Acklin and Mary A. his wife late Mary A.
Lee Edmund P. Lee, John H. Lee, Baldwin M. Lee and Richard
H. Lee part of the heirs of Charles Lee deceased in a certain
tract of 4096 acres granted to the said Charles Lee by patent
bearing date this 12th, day of September 1800. Lying and being
in the County of Madison and on the waters of Muddy
Creek. Now the said Green Clay for and in consideration
of the sum of one dollar to him in hand
paid by the said Matthew Johnson, the reciept whereof
in hereby acknowledged. Hath granted bargained and
sold and by these presents release, sell and quit
claim to the said Matthew Johnson and his heirs and
assigns forever, all the interest which the said Green
Clay has in and to about 40 acres of land
under the purchase from the heirs aforesaid, said
40 acres is bounded as follows towit. Beginning
at the North East corner of David Crews Decd. preemption
which called for three white oaks, they are all dead
and gone a stone being planted at the place of the
corner. Thence with William Ogg line North 56
poles to a small white oak by a large dead white
oak, with a white oak and sugar tree pointers in
Oggs line thence a new line East 114, 28 poles crossing
two roads to a stake with a hickory and two dogwoods
pointing thence South 56 poles crossing a road and branch
to a stone corner to said Mathew Johnson thence with