Misc. info about my family history
Bill of Sale of 160 acres of land to Nathaniel and Dicey McCoy
The forgoing deed was filed in my office to be recorded on this 15th day of October AD 1852 and duly recorded on the 21st day of the same month. B.C. Earle, Clerk.
Deed - Wm Wilson & Wife to Nathaniel McCoy SE 1/4 1, T9 R3 E.
In consideration of three hundred dollars the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, We William Wilson and Mary Wilson, his wife, do grant bargain sell and convey to Nathaniel McCoy the following lands known and described as the South East quarter of Section one (1) in Township nine (9) of Range three East of the basis meridian according to the plan of surveys of the Chickasaw Cession Mississippi, to have and forever in fee simple. The said William Wilson and Mary Wilson convenants that they are seized and possessed of said land and will warrant and defend the title to the said Nathaniel McCoy against the claims of all persons whatsoever in witness whereof we have signed sealed and delivered this deed the 15th day of October, AD 1852.
William Wilson (Seal) Mary Wilson (Seal).
State of Mississippi, Pontotoc, County SS. Personally appeared before me, Ben C. Earle Clerk of the Probate court of said County, the above named William Wilson and Mary Wilson, his wife, who severally acknowledged that they signed sealed and delivered the above deed on the day and year therein mentioned as their own act and deed. The said Mary Wilson, on a private examination, separate and apart from her said husband, acknowledged that she signed sealed and delivered said deed as her voluntary act and did freely without any fear, threats of compulsion of her husband.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court -
affixed at office this the 15th day of October 1852. B. C. Earle, Clerk.1
| "William McCoy and his bride, Emily Spruell, came to Mississippi in a horse-drawn covered wagon in 1845 from Laurens County, SC. They came through alabama on Tuscumbia Road. Their first year in Pontotoc County was spent on the farm of Shelton White near Ecru. Later they moved to the Oak Hill Community where they built their home with the help of the Milams, Dillards, and Goggins, neighboring families and relatives who had also recently come from South carolina. William McCoy was the son of Nathaniel and Dicy Goggins McCoy who moved to Pontotoc with them."1 |
| According to an early history of [William's] home, "The men went into the woods and cut logs with an axe, after which they tied chains to them ans snaked them with horses to the cleared house site. With broad axes they hewed the logs and notched the corners so they would fit together. The house was a two-room structure with a 'dog trot' between. They floors were smoothed with a hand plane and held in position by pegs. The cracks were chinked and daubed with dirt." Later the home was enlarged to a seven-room structure."2 |
Endnotes:
1Elvis McCoy's research in Pontotoc County, MS Court records 1995.
2 From These Hills A History of Pontotoc County, Callie B. Young, Editor, Fulton Mississippi, (C) 1976 p. 644.
3 Ibid, p. 644-5.
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