Statement of Joseph's purchase and downpayment.
June the 23rd 1796
This day I have received of Joseph Ruffner Senior the just and full sum of five hundred pounds . . being in part of two thousand pounds he and his two sons has contracted to me for my Elk Tract of Land in Kanawha County.
Geo. Clindenen
Teste-
Wm. Clendinen
Joseph Watkin
Revised July 2000
Copyright Bill Myers July 2000