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Deed - Richard C. Dorsey to Edwin Hastings
Seizure and sale of 130 acres property for $759.88 debt - Edwin Hastings
(dated 23 Sept. 1864, order 22 Feb. 1865, by sheriff 24 March 1865)
Lincoln County, Missouri Deeds, Vol. R, pp. 775-776. (FHL microfilm #
0973675)
Transcribed by Patricia SummersSmith, 1998.
Original Purchase Property Description: NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 - the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 & the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Sec. 17, Twp 49, Rng 2E in the District of Lands Subject to Sale at Palmyra, Missouri, containing 170 acres.
This Deed Property Description: NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 & the NW ___ of the NE 1/4 and the NE 1/2 of the W_ 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Sec. 17, Twp 49, Rng 2E containing 130 acres.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: This deed was extremely faded and very difficult to read, resulting in some undecipherable portions.
To all to whose their presents shall come I John K, KNOX sheriff of the County of
Lincoln State of Missouri send greeting. Whereas the 23 day of September in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Sixty four a judgment was rendered in the Circuit
Court of the County of Lincoln in favor of Edwin HASTINGS against Richard C. DORSEY for
the sum of seven hundred and fifty nine and 88/100 dollars for debt and = damages and
Eight and 85/100 dollars for costs upon which judgment = a special ?Writ of furs facies?
issued from the Clerks of said court in favor of said Edwin HASTINGS against the said
Richard C. DORSEY dated the 22 day of February 1865 directed to the sheriff of the County
of Lincoln and the same was to me delivered on the 22 day of February 1865 = ordering the
said sheriff to sell = all the right title interest and estate of said Richard C. DORSEY
of in and to the following described real estate situate in my said Court to wit
The NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 and the NW __ of the NE quarter and the NE 1/2 of the W?
half of the NW quarter of Sec No 17 Township 49N Range 2E containing 130 acres
and having previously to the day of sale living (after mentioned _____ at ___ ___
___ days notice of the time and place of sale and of the real estate to be sold and where
______ the law directs by __ ______ in the Troy Gazette a newspaper published in Troy in
said County by virtue of which said written notice I did on the 22 day of March 1865
between the hours of nine in the fore noon and five in the afternoon _____ day agreeably
to said notice at the Court House door in my said County of Lincoln ____ ____ the session
of the Circuit Court of my said County at the March time ______ for the year One thousand
Eight hundred and sixty five ____ ____ it ____ auction, for ready money all the right
title interest in ____ of the said ____ Richard C. DORSEY of in and to the foregoing
described Real Estate and Edwin HASTINGS being the highest and last bidder for said real
estate ____ for the sum of Two Hundred and fifty dollars the same ___ ___ ___ ___ the said
Edwin HASTINGS for that ______. Now therefore in consideration of the ______ of the
said sum Two hundred and fifty dollars to me the said sheriff ____ hand ____ the said
Edwin HASTINGS the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and ___ ______ of the authority
in me vested by said John K. KNOX sheriff ___ ____ ____ assign transfer and convey to the
said Edwin HASTINGS all the right title interest and estate of the said Richard C. DORSEY
of ____ to the ____ _____ _____ _____ property that I might sell as sheriff as aforesaid
by virtue of the aforesaid ___ ____ ______
To have and to hold the right title interest and estate hereby conveyed unto the Edwin
HASTINGS his heirs and assigns forever with all the rights and appurtances therein
belonging. ______ ______ Whereof I John K. KNOX Sheriff of the County of Lincoln
____ thereunto set my hand and affix my seal this the 24 day of March One thousand Eight
hundred and Sixty five.
{STAMP 30c}
State of Missouri }
County of Lincoln } SS Be it remembered that on the 24 day of March 1865
herewith appeared in open court before the judge of the Circuit Court of the said Court of
Lincoln John K. KNOX sheriff of said county who is herewith known to said judge to be the
person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deed as having executed and acknowledged
the same to be his act and deed for the purposes herein contained which said
acknowledgement is entered on the records of that date.
{ LL } Witness Alexander H. MARTIN Clerk of said Court with the Seal thereof affixed at office in Troy in said county on the day and date above written. A. H. MARTIN, Clerk.
Filed for record May 11, 1865
In the foregoing deed are erasures marked thus = and interlineations marked thus ^.
Alexander H. MARTIN, Recorder.
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