I, S. R. Laird, have this day bargained and sold and do hereby transfer and convey to Robert Humphreys and his heirs forever for the consideration of five hundred and eighty five dollars to are paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged a tract of land in the state of Tennessee, Perry County, and District number six containing by estimation one hundred and forty eight acres and thirty poles be the same more or less and hundred as follows Beginning at a stake the NE corner of a 44 acre entry in the name of John T. Tully runs East 13 poles to a small Elm on the bank of Buffalo with a double white oak marked as pointers thence South 51 poles East up the river with its meander 14 poles South 41� degrees East 21 poles to a stake and blackberry thence South 25 � East 94 poles to a stake with two persimmons marked as pointers South 54� West up the bank of the river 14 poles to a stake thence West 164 poles to stake thence south 12 poles to a stake in the river at the lower end of the Island thence West 66 poles to a stake thence South passing the NE courses of a six acre entry in the name of H? Tully at the poles in all 3 poles to a stake at the SE corner of one acre tract belonging to said Laird it being a part of the six acre tract thence West 26 poles to a stake in the West boundary line of said six acres thence South with said6 1/4 poles to a poplar at the NW corner thence West 15 3/4 poles to an Ash and Sassafras, thence North 22 poles to a white oak thence NE corner of a tract of land belonging to B. B. Berry? thence West with the N B line of the same one hundred and six poles to a stake in the E B line of an entry in the name of Thomas M. Brashears North with the same 50 poles to a small Hickory bush thence NE corner and in the South Boundary line of an entry in the name of ??? then East with the same 234 poles to a hickory and black gum in the West boundary line of the said 44 acre tract thence South with the same 43 poles to a stake the SW corner of the same thence South 76� East with the same 78 3/10 poles to a stake the South and East corner thence South with the E B line of the same 90 poles to the Beginning. 

To have and to hold the same to the said Robert Humphreys, his heirs assigns forever, I do covenant with the said Robert Humphreys that I am lawfully signed of said land, have agreed right to convey it, and that the same is remembered? there.  I do further covenant and bind myself my heirs and representatives to warrant and forever defend the title to the said land and every part thereof to the said Robert Humphreys his heirs assigns against the lawful claims of all persons whatever,

This 3rd day of January 1854.

S. R. Laird

Examined and delivered in our presence this third day of January A.D. 1854.

T. M. Jones

M. Nelson

State of Tennessee:

Perry County:

Personally appeared before me R. M. Thomas Deputy Clerk of the said County Court Samuel R. Laird the said ones to the foregoing deed with whom I am formally acquainted and who acknowledged that he signed made and executed the said deed for purposes therein contained on the day it bears date Given under my hand at the office this 3rd day of January 1854.  R. M. Thomas

State of Tennessee Registers office January the 3rd 1854 Perry County: Then was this Deed of conveyance from S. R. Laird to Robert Humphreys the Clerks Certificate together with this all duly registered in Book I page 261 and filed in Note Book A page 103 by me.

Thomas Regen