Glynn Co. Deed Book II
Part 2
State of Georgia }
County of McIntosh } This Indenture made and entered
into on this Nineteenth day of December Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred
and eighty eight between Adam Strain, Henry Huntington, and James K.
Clarke, all of said County and State as executors of the last will and
testament and upon the estate of Henry Todd late of said County and
State, deceased, the parties of the first part and Lawrence R. Akins and
Sherrod S. Akins, both of the County of Wayne and said State the parties
of the second part.
Witnesseth, that whereas the said
Henry Todd departed this life in said County of McIntosh and State aforesaid
on about the first day of May in the year Eighteen hundred and eighty six,
leaving a last will and testament and leaving a considerable estate of real and
personal property amongst which said real estate is that hereinafter described,
and conveyed; and in which said last will and testament the said testator
appointed and named as the executors thereof the said Adam Strain, Henry
Huntington, and James K. Clarke; which said last will and testament
was afterwards and on about the seventh day of June in the year last aforesaid,
duly and legally proven in solemn form and admitted to record on lawful and
proper proceedings for the purpose in the Court of Ordinary in the County and
State first above written and under which said last will and testament
afterwards and on the said seventh day of June the said Adam Strain and
Henry Huntington, qualified and on the nineteenth day of the same month
the said James K. Clarke also qualified as such executors of said last
will and upon said estate. To which said last will now on file in said
Court of Ordinary the proceedings for the probate and admission to record of the
same and all the proceedings and records in that behalf of file and of record in
said Court reference is hereby had for all purposes.
And Whereas the said Testator
Henry Todd in his said last will and by the terms thereof, after making
sundry specific devises and bequests to divers persons and institutions did
devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of his estate both real and
personal to Mary Ann Todd his wife during the term of her natural life;
amongst which real and residue as the
parties of the first part believe was the real property hereinafter described
and conveyed and did therein in his said last will touching the same direct that
all the same to be kept together and intact during the natural life of said
Mary Ann Todd; and that after her death and the death of Francis Williams
the half brother of said testator the said executors should within three years
after the death of the survivor of them the said Mary Ann Todd and
Francis Williams sell either at public or private sale, as to said executors
should seem best all of the said residuary estate is [sic] premises with the
appurtenances hereinafter described and conveyed.
And Whereas the said Mary Ann Todd
departed this life on the twenty seventh day of July in the year one thousand
eight hundred and eighty seven and the said Francis Williams departed
this life on the _____ day of _____ in the year eighteen hundred and eighty five
and the said executors devise it best that they do now make sale of property
hereinafter described and conveyed for the consideration hereinafter stated
privately and as by the terms of this present indenture.
Therefore the parties of the first
part for and in consideration of the sum of Twenty Four Hundred and six (2406
00/100) Dollars lawful money of the United States to them cash in hand counted
and paid at and prior to the ensealing and delivery of this deed, the receipt of
which they hereby admit, have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, revised,
released, enf???, confirmed and conveyed and by these presents do grant,
bargain, sell, alien, revise, release, enf??, confirm and convey unto the
parties of the second part and their heirs and assigns all of the right title
and interest of the estate of Henry Todd of in and to that large tract or
parcel of land situate lying and being in the Counties of Wayne and Glynn and
State of Georgia and containing seven thousand one hundred and sixty acres
(7160) be the same greater or less and being of irregular yet oblong shape and
surrounding entirely some smaller lots of land and partially surrounding other
smaller tracts and penetrated at divers points by other
smaller tracts of sundry owners and being well known as the "Todd
Lands" and lying on the waters of the Altamaha River on the Northward and
Northeastward, and Allick's Creek on the Northward and Northwestward and bounded
Westwardly and Southwardly by the lands of the said Lawrence K. Akins and
the lands of R. Goins which penetrate into said greater tract hereby
surveyed near its Northern confine and the lands of James Strickland
which also penetrate into the said large tract of land, and the lands known as
the "Williams Survey" and Thornton lands and Rumph lands
and also the lands of E. Howard which penetrate into said large body of
land in two places in the Southwest side: Southwardly and Eastwardly by
lands of March Akins, Richard Fitchet, and the "Foreman" and "Gignilliat"
lands and others; Eastwardly and Northwardly by the Altamaha River, the lands of
James Drawdy, a portion of Allick's Creek, the lands of R. Goins,
the Union Church tract and Allick's Creek, again and Northward and Westward by
Allick's Creek and the lands of R. Goins and others; A plot of
which said large tract of land hereby conveyed showing boundaries, courses and
distances and shape of the same and how the same is penetrated by said other
tracts, and in what manner and to what extent the same is so penetrated and the
exact positions within the same of the said smaller tracts which the tract
hereby conveyed surrounds and shape, size and courses and distances is hereto
annexed and marked "A" and made a part of this deed for the more perfect
description of the lands hereby conveyed and which plat for the purposes of
identification thereof the parties of the first part and the attesting witnesses
to this indenture have written their names on the margin of.
Together with the remainders,
reversions, the tenements and hereditaments, and the houses, buildings and
fences on the same and the rights members and appurtenances to the same in any
manner belonging or in any way appertaining and also all the estate right,
title, claim and demand which the said Henry Todd had in and to the same
either in law or in equity.
To Have and To Hold the said
bargained and above described premises with the appurtenances unto the
said parties of the second part and their heirs and assigns forever and in
the fee simple.
In Testimony whereof the said parties
of the first part have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals the day
and year first above written.
Adam Strain {L.S.} Executor of Henry Todd
James K. Clarke {L.S.} Executor of Henry Todd
Henry Huntington {L.S.} Executor of Henry Todd
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of
Alex C. Wylly
Wm. McW Young
N.P. McI Co. Ga.
Recorded this July 1st 1891 J.L. Beach Clk S.C.G.C. Ga.
[Plat map of property spans four pages, not numbered, within the text of the deed--ALH]
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