MEIGS COUNTY, OH, LAND RECORDS, VOL. 3, 1828-1832
pg. 103-104.

James Graham } Know all men by these presents that I James Graham of Rutland
     To}     } Township in the County of Meigs and State of Ohio do for and in
Joseph Black } consideration of sixty dollars paid to me by Joseph Black of said
               Rutland the receipt of which I do hereby acknowledge have given,
granted, bargained and sold and do by these presents give, grant, bargain, and
sell unto the said Joseph Black, his heirs and assigns forever an certain tract
or parcel of land situated in said Rutland and bounded as follows to wit,
beginning at a stake nine chains and fifty links from the North west corner of
Fraction No. two, Town six, Range 14, thence South eleven chains thirty seven
links to a take thence east thirty degrees North six chains forty two links to a
stake thence North thirty degrees west nine chains ninety links to the place of
beginning containing three acres and eight poles also one other piece or parcel
of land situate  on Fraction Numbered six in said Rutland adjoining the above
described piece and bounded as follows, beginning at the South corner of land
lately owned by one to Hamilton Black, thence Southerly by the East line of
Thomas Everton's land to the North line of land now owned and possessed by the
heirs of James Muncie, deceased, thence East nine chains and forty links, thence
South 28 degrees East then chains and forty six links, thence South fifty one
degrees East six chains Eighty one links thence South five degrees W. six chains
and ninety links, Thence South fifteen degrees East three chains and fifty links
to east and west line of the said Fraction numbered six, thence East nine chains
to the original corner thence North forty one chains and ninety one links to the
South East corner of said Hamilton Black's land, Thence west to the place of
beginning containing about sixty acres and a half. To have and to hold the above
described pieces or parcels of land together with all the privileges and
appurtenances hereunto belonging to him the said Joseph Black, his heirs and
assigns forever and I the said James Graham do for myself, my heirs, executors
and administrators covenant with him the said Joseph Black, his heirs and
assigns forever that I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises that they are
free of all incumbrances that I have good right and legal authority to all and
convey all and every tract or parcel of the within described premises in manner
aforesaid and that I will and my heirs, executors and administrators shall
warrant and defend this same to him the said Joseph Black, his heirs and assigns
against the lawful claims and demands of all persons_________  ___________
thereof have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirty first day of March in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine. 

Signed, sealed and delivered }
in presence of               }             James Graham (seal)
Samuel Downing               }             Elizabeth her+mark Graham (seal)
John Sylvester               }
The State of Ohio            } Personally came the above named James Graham and
Meigs County                 } acknowledged that he did sign and seal the
                               foregoing deed of conveyance as his own voluntary
act and deed also at the same time Elizabeth Graham, wife of the said James
Graham, who being examined as the law directs acknowledged that she did sign and
seal the foregoing deed of conveyance for the purposes therein expressed will
knowing the same to be in ___ to her right of dower in and to the premises which
she hereby extinguishes.  Before me this 31st day of March AD 1829.

                                            Samuel Downing J.P.

State of Ohio } Chester Recorders office 22nd of April AD 1829
Meigs County  } I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original
                deed.

                                            Attest Nathl Hamlin, recorder.