Sheriff’s Sale: Ezekiel Able’s 790 acres in Cape Girardeau Dist., MO, where James Leath Fortenberry resides, are sold
Ezekiel Able's 790 acres on the west side of White Water, next to Reason Baily and “whereon James L. Fortenberry now resides,” were seized by Sheriff John Hays to satisfy Edward F. Bond's December 1808 judgment of $93.12 and 5 mills in the Cape Girardeau Court of Common Pleas. The land was sold at auction on 24 March 1809 to Morgan Byrne for $32; the sheriff's deed is dated 25 March and was recorded 26 March 1809 (Deed Book C, pages 72–74; printed abstract no. 375). This post combines the original printed-abstract post with the full deed-book pages. It places James Leath Fortenberry on Able's land by March 1809, five weeks before the Ables bonded him a 300-acre tract of his own.