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C. M. Clay to Deed Heirs &c 1854 June 19th ackd. & O. R. No. 8. Page 142 Paid

This Indenture made this 19th day of June 1854 between C. M. Clay of Madison County and state of Kentucky of the one part and his legal heirs of his present wife Mary Jane and any here after to be born of her or any other legal wife, in the course of human events, of the other part, towit: That whereas Green Clay decd. willed to the sd. heirs of C.M. Clay a certain tract of land upon which sd. C.M. Clay now lives, containing two thousand acres more or less, being in trust for the life time of said Clay and at his death to be held in fee simple by his said heirs, and whereas sd. C.M. Clay after the death of sd. Green Clay, did by Compromise and purchase complete the legal title to sd. land, and received for valuable consideration a deed from Robert Miller & wife & others to all or a portion of said land, intended by said C.M. Clay to be for the benefit of sd. towit: Now to avoid all misapprehension and future dispute about title to said vast estate, I C.M. Clay aforesaid do in consideration of the love and affection which I owe by the bonds of nature to my said heirs, and filial regard to the desires and last will of my father Green Clay decd. hereby confirm said trust deed and convey to the fullest extent all my right title and interest to sd. land acquired from sd. Robert Miller & wife & others, to my said heirs in fee simple forever. Given under my hand and seal This 19th day of June 1854 C.M. Clay State of Kentucky Madison County Act I, Thomas H. Barnes, clerk of the County Court for said County, do certify that this Deed from C.M. Clay to his Heirs was on the 19th day of June 1854 produced and acknowledged before me in my office by the said C.M. Clay to be his act and deed. Whereupon said deed, with this certificate, has been duly recorded in my office. Att. Tho. H. Barnes, C.M.C.C.