On 19 Sep 1872, Ellen Wright and James C. Wright together leased a tract of their land to Samuel Carrothers who was operating a distillery on the land. This appears, from this deed, to be "a strip of 1/2 acre of ground, part of a tract of 350 acres of land in Bullitt County, Kentucky, conveyed by William Polk to James and Joseph H. Wright, said strip fronting on the west side of the turnpike 420 feet and running back 55 feet at one end and 50 feet at the other."
Bullitt County Deed Book U, Pages 454-456
Whereas on 18 September 1875, a petition in equity was filed in the Bullitt Circuit Court by Ellen Wright in her own right and as guardian for her children, and B. M. Rivers against F. Emma Rivers et al asking a judgment for the sale of certain real estate, which is hereinafter conveyed; and on the 28th September 1875 a judgment was rendered directing the master commissioner to sell said property upon the conditions named in said judgment, and it appearing from the report of sale filed in court by the said commissioner on the 25th October 1875, which was that day confirmed by the court, that he did after advertising as required by the judgment offer said property for sale to the highest bidder at the courthouse door in Shepherdsville, Kentucky on the 18th October 1875, first day of the October term of the Bullitt County Court, when Ellen Wright became the purchaser thereof at a price of $500 and executed her bond for the same with Samuel Carrothers and Caleb Wise, sureties payable in 12 months; and on the 25th October 1875 the written request of said sureties and plaintiff B. M. Rivers was filed that said property be conveyed to the purchaser without retaining a lien for the purchase money, and the court ordered the master commissioner to make said conveyance.
This indenture witnesseth that in consideration of the premises and the said sum of $500, J. Douglas Wright, Lydia E. Wright, Joseph E. Wright, Annie S. Wright, S. Virgil Wright, George D. Wright, F. Emnma Rivers, children of Joseph H. Wright and Ellen Wright, guardian of said children except F. E. Rivers and B. M. Rivers, husband of F. Emma Rivers, and Samuel Carothers by R. M. McConathy, master commissioner of the Bullitt Circuit Court of the first part doth convey unto Ellen Wright of the second part the interest of the first parties in the property purchased by her under judgment aforesaid, and described as follows.
A strip of 1/2 acre of ground, part of a tract of 350 acres of land in Bullitt County, Kentucky, conveyed by William Polk to James and Joseph H. Wright, said strip fronting on the west side of the turnpike 420 feet and running back 55 feet at one end and 50 feet at the other, and north of the residence on said tract inclusive of the distillery and warehouse and a passway of 5 feet at the end of each. Said distillery and warehouse are also conveyed by this deed, but subject to the condition that said buildings stripped of the machinery and apparatus and implements of every character to be valued and 1/2 of said valuation to be paid by the second party to Samuel Carrothers as set out and agreed, and the partnership articles between said Carrothers and Joseph H. Wright deceased date 1st September 1869.
To have and to hold the said property unto the second party forever, the first parties warranting the title to same as fully as by law the commissioner is authorized to warrant, and also free of any lien for the purchase money aforesaid.
Witness the hands of the grantors by the master commissioner this 25th October 1875.
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