Robert F. Samuels to George W. Bowman - Long Lick Creek Tracts

On 14 Oct 1850, Samuels sold several tracts located in the Long Lick Creek area to George W. Bowman, including part of May & Oyler's survey

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Bullitt County Deed Book O, Pages 478-480

This indenture made this 14th day of October 1850 between Robert F. Samuels and Malinda Samuels his wife of Bullitt County, Kentucky of one part and George W. Bowman of the same place of the other part.

Witnesseth that the said Robert F. Samuels for and in consideration of the sum of $1000 in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, they said Robert F. Samuels and wife have sold and conveyed and by these presents do sell and convey to said Bowman the following tract of land in Bullitt County, Kentucky on Long Lick Creek, being part of May & Oyler's survey of 400 aces and part of the tracy deeded by H. Crist to S. Crow the 28th April 1808, see deed recorded Bullitt County office Book B, page 679.

The part of said tract here conveyed to Bowman begins in the patent line of Oyler & May near a cedar tree standing 14 poles and some small fraction from the beginning corner called a beech and ash marked H.C. of said 400 acre tract and running with the old patent line. The patent corner is North 58° East about 239 poles to two sugar trees and blue ash, the patent corner, thence North 32° West 253 poles to two poplar and a beech patent corner near the cold spring, thence South 58° West 32 poles to a stake in the patent line corner to said Bowman's land and with same south 4° east 133 poles to a beech corner to said Bowman, then South 55° West with Bowman's line 43 poles to a white oak and sycamore, Bowman's corner on Long Lick Creek, thence down the creek with the meander thereof to Bowman's corner and the east line of the patent on said creek, then across the creek with Brashear's line as purchased of said Samuels as designated and the deed of R. F. Samuels to Mary Brashear, Robert Brashear, &c, dated the 24 August 1850 of record in said county book M page 44 will show; and up the creek to Brashear's corner same small mulberry sapling on the bluff of Long lick Creek leaving on this right the roadway as named in Samuels' deed to Brashear, and then a straight line to the cedar tree, the beginning.

Also, said Samuels hereby sells said Bowman so much of the Caldwell tract so called adjoining the above as is included in this boundary, viz. begin at the cedar tree aforesaid in the beginning and run then southwardly the same straight course as the last named line from the mulberry in the creek to the cedar to the line between said Caldwell and the tract here sold next the knob and then with the line of the tract so sold by Caldwell to Comm's eastwardly to the branch and with the branch down to the lie of said Bowman (or the May and Oyler line aforesaid). This tract contains some 14 or 16 acres.

Also said Samuels sells to said Bowman the following other tract of land adjoining the May and Oyler's 400 acre tract aforesaid and which interferes in part with the same trust a tract of 300 acres patented to John May and conveyed by B__, the owner to S. Crow 15 Nov 1817 by deed recorded in the office aforesaid and now owned and claimed by said Samuels - see Samuels' deed from Hughes Heirs &c by commissioner to him dated the 26th July 1850 recorded in Bullitt County Court office will show. The 300 acres is bounded as follows.

Beginning at a sweet gum now down and two beeches, the beginning corner of May's 200 acres, which lay on Long Lick, thence East 180 poles to three small beeches, then South 267 poles to two sugar trees, then West 180 poles to three sycamores, then North 267 poles to the beginning.

Out of the boundary of the same here sold hereto is recorded to Mary Brashear, Robert Brashear &c 100 acres of wood land as named in the deed of said Samuels to them of date aforesaid, recorded in Book M, page 44, reference thereto will show the boundary of the 100 acres so required and not fore sold, and this 300 acre tract interferes with other lands, and so far as the same interferes with other claims, to-wit, the tract claim is by Kurtz &c who pretends to hold under Key's patents, said Samuels sells by quit claim title only without warrant, and as to the all the part sold in the May and Oyler claim and the part sold as coming through Caldwell and which forms the May and Oyler claim the title is by general warranty.

And said Samuels also receives out of this conveyance for a family burying ground about half an acre where the old family graveyard now is of said Crow, Brashear &c., and that is reserved for the benefit of said Brashear family &c forever as a burying ground.

To have and to hold said land and appurtenances here sold unto him the said George W. Bowman and to his heirs and assigns forever against the claim of said Samuel and wife and all other persons by general warranty to the __ so warranted and by release him quit claim as far as named.

Witness the hands and seals of the parties aforesaid. There is believed to be conveyed by this deed about 450 acres, and out of the 450, there is about 50 acres in the interference with the Kurtz claim under King, for this there is no warranty in case of loss under the other under the other claims. Witness the hands and seals of the grantor the date aforesaid. (signed) R. F. Samuels, Malinda Samuels

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