STEEL, Eleanor/Liberty Township/ 11 Nov 1845

TRUSTEES CAMERON, SMITH, PREWITT, KUNCE, LATIMER

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Date: 2/26/2004 at 15:46:14

Jefferson Co. Deed Book C, p. 418. Deed recorded Feb. 28, 1846; Eleanor Steel, grantor; To - Trustee of the Cumberland Presyterian church.

Know all men by these present that I, Eleanor Steel, of the County of Jefferson & Territory of Iowa, have and in consideration of the sum of Ten dollars lawful money of the United States to me in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged by John M. Cameron, Greenup Smith, Anthony T. Prewette, Luke Kunce and Samuel C. Latimore, Trustees of the Cumberland Presyterian church, Lebanon Congregation, of the County aforesaid, have given granted bargained and sold and do hereby give grant bargain sell and convey unto the aforesaid Trustees and their successors in office do and for benefit of said congregation and its assigns forever,all that certain piece or parcel of land in said county situate and described as follows, to wit; Commencing at the divisional line running East and West through Section Twenty-seven (27), Township seventy-one (71) North of range Ten (10) West of sixty five rods westward from the Southeast corner of the NE qr. of secton and running north five degrees west sixty 24/100 rods thence north eighty one degrees east fourteen rods 24/100 south five degrees east sixty rods 24/100 thence fourteen rods 24/100 to the place of beginning, containing five acres one rod seventeen perches & eight tenths of a perch more or less. Together with all and singular the hereditaments & appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining to the said Trustees their successors in office, for the use and benefit of said congregation or its assigns forever, as a perfect & absolute estate in fee simple, and the said Eleanor Steel for herself & her heirs doth hereby covenent to & with the said Trustees & their successors in office for use of said congregation or its assigns that she will forever warranr & defend the same to the said congregation or its assigns against the lawful (?) of each and every person or persons whomsoever. In testimony whereof the said Eleanor Steel has hereunto set her hand & seal this fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five.

In the presence of: CF Alden and John Steel.