At 03:26 PM 5/17/2004 -0700, Phil Smith wrote: >I have a Rutherford Land transaction that have two dates (1855 & 1838) can >someone help me to understand, or find which date is correct......thanks > >No 319 This the 8th day of Decer. 1855 This is the date the deed was copied into the deed book at the courthouse. >This indenture made this fifteenth day of August one thousand eight >hundred and thirty nine This is the actual date of the transaction. >Before we the subscribers Judge of the Superior Court of Law and Equity in >and for the State aforesaid, George J. Banther and Mary his wife parties >of the first part to the foregoing deed acknowledged the same in due form >of law to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentiond, and the >said Mary being privately examined said freely and of her own accord >without the fear of compulsion of her husband and that she doth now >voluntarily assent thereto, .....at Rutherford this 27th day of Nov A.D. >1855......wherefore let the deed & this certificate be registered. This is the date when the wife of the seller was interviewed by the court to make sure she knew what was happening and that she was not being coerced by her husband into giving up her share in the land. And it is also the date the court said all was OK to certify and register the deed. Hope this helps. Peace, Part of the Tree, Greg --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]