Book M, Volume 3, pages 306–307 (Book 65, p. 306)

[Page 306]

For and in Consideration of the Sum of Two Hundred & Fifty Dollars ($250.00) to me cash in hand paid receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged I Anderson Bryant have this day bargained & sold and do by these presents grant bargain sell transfer & convey unto The Chattanooga & Lookout Mountain Rail Way Company a corporation duly chartered and organized under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Tennessee a Right of Way for its Rail Road through the lands now occupied by me as a home place on the top of Lookout Mountain in the 17th Civil Dist of Hamilton County Tennessee and described as follows to wit. Begining at the Holman(?) Spring thence running up the hollow to the South East corner of the Orchard in front of the House owned by Hunt thence a Westerly course up the hollow to a small bluff thence across in a southerly course to the center of a hollow to the line between McCallie, Cooke & S. Rogers(?) thence down the hollow and with its meanders to the beginning containing three acres more or less being the same land sold to me by Sallie Morbit Aug 19th 1878 by deed recorded in Registers office of Hamilton County Tennessee in Book F Vol 2 page 279. The Right of Way of land herein conveyed is a strip of land fifty (50) feet in width extending through the land aforesaid the center line of said strip of land begining at Station No 58 in the South line of the above described land said station being a station in the line of the Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain Rail Road as located and adopted running thence in a Northerly direction on a uniform curve of 4° six hundred and five (605) feet to Station No 64+05 of said Rail Road in the North line of the said before described lands, said strip of land herein conveyed extending twenty five (25) feet in width on each side of the line above described. A small plat [interlined: or map] of the land herein conveyed is hereto attached for more accurate description and is made a part hereof.

[Plat sketch at left margin — see description below.]

To have and to hold the same to the said grantee its successors and assigns forever in fee simple. I covenant with the said Grantee that I am lawfully seized and possessed of the land herein conveyed have full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same that the title is clear free and unincumbered and that I will forever warrant and defend the same against the claims of all persons whomsoever. And I Louisa Bryant wife of the said Anderson Bryant in consideration of the premises do hereby release [struck: and] relinquish and convey unto the said grantee all right title interest claim or demand I may or can have to homestead or dower or any other interest in or upon the land herein conveyed. Witness our hands this 13th day of August 1888.

Witness  H. Whiteside                    Anderson [his X mark] Bryant
                                         Louisa Bryant

State of Tennessee }  Before me W. G. McAdoo Jr a Notary Public duly appointed commissioned & qualified in and for the County & State aforesaid personally appeared
County of Hamilton }

[Page 307]

Anderson Bryant the within named Bargainor with whom I am personally acquainted & who acknowlege[d] that he executed the within instrument for the purpose therein contained And Louisa Bryant wife of the said Anderson Bryant having appeared before me privately and apart from her husband the said Louisa Bryant acknowleged the execution of the said deed to have been done by her freely voluntarily & understandingly without compulsion or constraint from her said husband & for the purpose therein expressed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Notarial Seal at office in the City of Chattanooga Tennessee on this the Thirteenth day of August 1888.
[seal: W. G. McAdoo Jr, Notary Public, Chattanooga, Hamilton County Tenn]   W. G. McAdoo Jr  Notary Public

State of Tennessee }  The above deed & Certificate were filed for Record 14th August 1888 at 3 P M Entered in Note Book No 5 page 255 Recorded in Book M Vol 3 pages 306 Et Seq
Hamilton County  }
Witness my hand at office in Chattanooga.
                                         H. C. Beck  Register
                                         per J. K. Hodges  Dep Register

[Plat sketch (p. 306, lower left)]

- North arrow, pointing up the page.
- Two parallel curved solid lines (the 50-ft ROW) with a dashed centre line labelled "4° Curve," running from lower-right to upper-centre, concave toward the east.
- Bottom: straight line labelled "S 38° 30′ E" (Bryant's south boundary); centre-line point "Sta 58"; "25′" marked each side.
- Top: straight line labelled "N 64 W" (Bryant's north boundary); centre-line point "Sta 64+05"; "25′" marked each side.
- Label "BRYANT" to the east of the ROW; "7/10 Acre" to the west (the strip's area).
- Far-left: a vertical line with hatching along its lower half — unlabelled.
- "Scale: 1 in = 200 ft."

[Working transcription from the project research file; (?) marks an uncertain reading and [ ] a transcriber's note. The original scan controls.]