WAR, POLITICS AND
RECONSTRUCTION
Tennessee, and settled on Duck River,
eighteen miles from Shelbyville, where my father was born.
Nathan Bedford Forrest, the great
Confederate cavalry leader, was the son of a blacksmith by the name of William
Forrest, a neighbor of my grandfather on Duck River, and it is not unlikely
that he was my grandfather's blacksmith.
As a curiosity of the times, I have obtained a copy of the deed to forty acres of land to my grandfather, dated April 1, 1819, as follows:
ADREN ANGLE TO HENRY WORMOTH FOR 40
ACRES
This Indenture made this first day in April in the year
of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Nineteen Between Adren Angle of the
County of Bedford and State of Tennessee of the first part & Henry Wormath
of the same State and County of the other part.
Witnesseth, that the said Adren
Angle for and in consideration of the sum of One Hundred and fifty Dollars, the
Receipt Whereof is hereby acknowledged, Hath given granted bargained and sold
and by these Presents doth give grant & Sell And Convey in fee Simple unto
the said Henry Wormotb his heirs and assigns forever a Certain place or Parcel
of Land Situate lying and being in the County of Bedford on the Waters of the
North fork of Duck River and Bounded as follows: Beginning at a hickory William
Burnett North East Corner running West Eighty four Poles To a Forked Ceder
thence North fifty Eight Poles to Two Ceders in the South boundary line of a
Survey in the Name of George Sanders Thence East With said line fifty one and
half Poles to his South East Corner Thence: North With his East boundary line
forty Six Poles to a Hickory Thence East Thirty and a half Poles to a stake in
Richard Trotters West boundary line thence South With said line to the
Beginning Containing by Estimation forty Acres it being the Same more or Less,
To Have And To Hold The aforesaid land and bargained Premises With all And
Singular the fights Property imoluments and appertinances thereunto belonging
or in any Wise appertaining Thereunto, To the only Proper use of him the said
Henry Wormouth his heirs And Assigns forever & the said Adren Angle for
himself his heirs Est And adm. doth Covenant and agree to and With the said
Henry Warmoth his heirs & assigns to Warrant & forever defend The
aforesaid Land & Bargain Premises
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