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Chickasaw Land Deeds
(Transcribed by Cindy Whirley Nelson)
This indenture made and entered the
twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six
between Ihatin-cubby of the Chickasaw Nation in the State of
Mississippi of the one part and John D. Bradford of the other
part. Witnesseth that the said Iha-tin-cubby for and in
consideration of the sum of one thousand and six hundred dollars
to him in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged
hath bargained, sold, and conveyed and by those presents doth
bargain, sell, and convey unto the said John D. Bradford two
sections of land situated, lying, and being in Tishomingo
County, State of Mississippi to wit: Section nineteen and thirty
in township four of range eight part of the basis is entitled to
under the treaty of the twenty-fourth of May eighteen hundred
and thirty-four between the Chickasaw tribe of Indians and the
United States to have and to hold the aforesaid premesis in fee
simple to the only proper use and hehoof of the said John D.
Bradford that the before recited land and bargained premises he
will warrant and forever defend against the claims or claim of
all and every person or persons what-so-ever in testamony where
of the said Iha-tin-cubby hath hereunto set his hand and affixed
his seal the day and date first above written.
Iha-tin-cubby x his mark
Colbert Moon
E.B. McDowell
We the undersigned chiefs do hereby
certify that Iha-tin-cubby the ______? Claimant of land set
forth in the foregoing deed to John D. Bradford is capable to
manage and take care of his own affairs given under our hands
this the twenty eighty day of May in the year of our Lord one
thousand and eight hundred and thirty-six.
James Colbert x his mark
Iha-tin-cubby x his mark
Eros P. McDowell
Deed Record Book A (Corinth courthouse)
This indenture made and entered the
twenty-third day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
Lewis Roll No. 653 of Chickasaw Nation Indian of the first part
and Edward Orne Trustee second part.
Witnesseth that for and in consideration
of the sum of one thousand and six hundred dollars by parties of
second party to parties of first part. The party of first parth
hath granted, bargained and sold by these present doth grant,
bargain, and sell unto the parties of second part all his
rights, titles, claims and ______> interest in and to a cartain
piece of parcel of land sknown as Section number three and ten,
in township five, or range seven east, situated in the said
Chickasaw Nation in the limits of the State of Mississippi which
has been alloted to the said party of first part as his reserve
by virtue of provision of a treaty entered into between the
United States of America and the said Chickasaw Nation of
Indians in the twenty-fourth day of May one thousand eight
hundred thirty-four to have and to hold the above granted and
described premises with the appurtenances unto the said parties
if the second part as joint tenanst and not as tenants in common
and the survivors and suervivors of them and their assigns and
assigns of such survivors or survivors and their heirs of such
survivors for ever and the part of the first part doth hereby
convenant for himself and his heirs to and with the parties of
the second part to and will those that may repersent them as
above set forth that he hath right to convey and that the
premises aforesaid are free from encumbrance and that the title
thereto he and his heirs will for ever warrant and defend to
them and their aforesaid representatives against the claim of
all persons what soever in testimony whereof the part of the
first part hath hereunto affixed his seal the day and year above
set forth, signed, sealed and deliverd in this presecnce.
I. Kemp
II. A. Barton
Lewis Roll “his mark”
Deed Book No. A, old Tishomingo County
Records 1836, Corinth Courthouse.