Shelby v. Smith's heirs

Judge Mills

delivered the opinion.

William M’Bride being entitled to a settlement of four hundred acres of land, styled in this record as a name of description, Buntin’s settlement, sold and gave his obligation to John Buntin, on the 10th of October, 1781, with a penalty in the usual form, conditioned “to make or to cause to be made to said Buntin, a good and lawful deed or title, for a certain tract of land in Lincoln county, containing two hundred acres, being the place where said Buntin then lived, and laid of by James Hord, deputy surveyor. The title to be made so soon as it could…