On 24 Jan 1792, Henry and Nicholas Crist and Adam Shepherd, for a debt they owed to Samuel Crow, deeded 273 1/4 acres on the waters of Long Lick Creek to Crow who lived in Maryland. Following the death of Samuel Crow, this land descended to his children Basil, Samuel Jr., and Ann who married Thomas Q. Willson. Then on 27 Oct 1821, Ann Crow Willson and her husband sold their third share of the farm to her brother Basil Crow. And on 17 Sep 1825, Samuel Crow Jr. sold his third share of the farm to Basil Crow.
Basil Crow later on 18 Oct 1839 sold an uncertain tract of land, but likely this one, to Benjamin Hughes who was living in Mississippi at the time.
Bullitt County Deed Book A2, Pages 179-181
Know all men by these presents that we Henry Crist, Nicholas Crist and Adam Shepherd of Nelson County and District of Kentucky are helden and firmly bounden unto Samuel Crow of Montgomery County and State of Maryland in the full and just sum of four hundred pounds good and lawful money of Virginia to be paid unto him the said Samuel Crow, his certain attorney, heir, executors, administrators or assigns to which payment well and truly to be made and done we bind ourselves and each of us, our heirs, executors and administrators jointly and severally firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals, and dated this twenty-fourth day of January 1792.
Whereas the aforesaid Henry Crist, Nicholas Crist and Adam Shepherd hath bargained and sold unto Samuel Crow of Montgomery County and State of Maryland 273 1/4 acres of land situate lying and being in Nelson County on the Long Lick Creek, laying between the lands of Nacy [Ignatius] Brashear on the lower side and Weathers King on the upper side, being part of a 400 acre preemption known by the name of (?) Preemption. Beginning at a honey locust and sugar tree standing 75 poles from the beginning trees on the first line of the original tract and running as follows: South 32° East 181 poles, North 58° East 253 poles, thence North 32° West 223 poles, thence South 20° West 106 poles to a large beech, South 55° West 43 poles on the bank of Long Lick Creek, thence binding with the said creek to the beginning.
The said Crists and Shepherd do hereby acknowledge and confess to have sold the said described land to the said Samuel Crow and do further covenant and agree to convey unto the said Crow against the claims of all persons whatsoever to the aforesaid Samuel Crow, his heirs and assigns on or before the first day of August 1794. It is also further agreed by all parties that if the said Samuel Crow doth fail to comply with his bond given unto Henry Crist for the payment of the above described land against the time therein mentioned, then the said Henry Crist, Nicholas Crist and Adam Shepherd are not obliged to convey the same land to the said Samuel Crow, but the said land to remain the property of the said Henry Crist, and the said Crist do oblige himself, his heirs, executors, administrators to refund and pay back all moneys to the said Crow that the said Crist shall or may receive in payment for the said land upon retaining such a sum therefrom as may be judged sufficient for damages sustained in behalf of the said Crist as may seem reasonable to the judgment of two or three men maturely chosen by the two parties.
The condition of the above obligation that if the said Henry Crist, Nicholas Crist, Adam Shepherd, their heirs, executors, administrators, or one of them do convey or cause to be conveyed to the said Samuel Crow, his heirs and assigns the above bargained tract of land according to the true interest and meaning of this present writing warranting and defending the same to him that said Samuel Crow, his heirs and assigns forever, then the above obligation to be void; otherwise to stand and remain in full force and virtue in law. In witness we have hereunto set our hands and seals the day and year above written.
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