Stephenson ex rel. Ervine v. Yandle

The bill states that about the 11th of November, in the year of our Lord 1805,’James and Jesse Turpin, of Stuart County, being entitled by their father’s entry to 440 acres of land, part of a tract of 640 acres, lying partly in Smith County, to wit, 285 acres, agreed, by writing under their hands, “ to sell to William Stephenson a certain piece of land, or land warrant, containing 640 acres, and bind themselves in the sum of $150 to convey the right to the said William Stephenson, which they have from their father ; but if said land is not appropriated on the waters of Goose Creek, then only…