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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.*
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