On 3 Aug 1840 Rufus K. Summers sold 5 Shepherdsville lots and a 4 acre tract adjoining the town to Jacob Bowman Jr. He had obtained Lot #1 at a tax auction, and sold it to Bowman as a quit claim without a title warranty. The other 4 lots (81, 82, 83 and 84) had been purchased by Summers from the town trustees in 1828. Bowman sold Lot #1 to Frederick Travis in 1847. Travis would sell Lot #1 to Francis Maraman in 1849. Maraman would then sell the house and lot to his sister-in-law Susan Maraman and her children in 1852. Susan then married Nathaniel W. Gatten on 15 Jul 1852, and on 10 Dec 1866 the lot and additional ground was sold to Mary Myer, wife of Stephen P. Myer. They would sell the lot and adjoining ground to her brother George W. Simmons in 1873, as shown below.
Bullitt County Deed Book U, Pages 27-28
This indenture made and entered into this 12th day of December 1873 between S. P. Meyer and Mary Meyer his wife of the first part and George W. Simmons of the second part, all of the County of Bullitt, State of Kentucky.
Witnesseth that the said first parties in consideration of the sum of $1200 in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have this day and do hereby grant, bargain, sell, convey and deliver unto the second party the following tract of land and house and lot, to-wit: the house and lot where the second party now resides called in a deed to the first parties as Lot No. 1 in the town of Shepherdsville and also five acres two roods and eleven poles of land and joining said lot, being the same conveyed by Francis Maraman to Susan C. Gatten, and by said Gatten and husband to the first parties the land bounded as follows.
Beginning at a stake in a hollow, corner to the Shepherdsville Grave Yard and running N 83° W 26 poles to a stake corner to same, thence N 12° 15' E 38 poles to a stake, thence S 79° E 22 poles to a stake, thence S 6° 30' W 37 poles to the beginning containing 5 acres, 2 roods and 11 poles more or less; and the first parties covenant that they will and their heirs shall forever warrant and defend the title to the tract of land and house and lot herein conveyed and appurtenances therein and thereunto belonging unto the second party and his heirs and assigns forever against all claims whatever.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the day and year first written. (signed) S. P. Meyer, Mary J. Meyer
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