Deeds and Records

Know all men by these presents that whereas Fleming Greenwood and on the 10 day of November 1818 purchase the N. W. qr Section 12 in Township No 2S of Range No 2 E in the district of Lands Office for Sale at Shawneetown which tract or qr Section contains 160 acres and was sold to the said Greenwood at the rate of two dollars per acre now therefore be it known that the said Greenwood having availed himself of the relief granted by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd day of March 1821 entitled an Act for the relief of the purchasers of the public Lands prior to the 1st day of July 1821 has surrendered the original first certificate No. 2001 dated the 10 day of November 1818 granted to the said Greenwood and filed a relinquishment No. 104 dated the 27th day of August 1821 in which he has relinquished E 1/2 of said qr section and requested a further credit on sd being the part of said qr section not relinquished.  Now therefore know all men that I Fleming Greenwood for value received do hereby transfer sd over & convey unto Walter Alexander of the county of Jefferson and state of Illinois all my right title interest claims and demand whatsoever off in and to the above described tract of parcel of Land.  In witness whereof I have subscribed my hand and seal this 31st day of March in the year of our Lord 1823.

 Fleming Greenwood
 Thomas D. Minor