Napiers of the Ozarks 
Deed of Farm Purchased by Cyrus Napier (1829) in Webster County, Missouri
From microfilm at Missouri State Archives
County: Webster
Record: Deed
Vol: B
Page: 566
C6905
Know all men by these presents that I John Noffsinger of the County of Webster and State of Missouri for and in consideration of the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Five dollars, received to my full satisfaction of Cyrus Napier of the County of Webster and State of Missouri the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged I do give grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Cyrus Napier and to his heirs and assigns the following described lot tract or parcel of land [?]: The South East qr. of the North East qr. of Section No. Thirty Two (32) in Township No. Thirty (30) of Range No. Sixteen (16) containing Eighty acres more or lefs to leave deed to land etc the above granted and bargained Premises, with the aforementioned thereof unto herein the said Cyrus Napier and to his heirs and assigns in fee simple forever to his own proper use and and [sic] behalf of and further the said John Noffsinger to covenant to and with the said Cyrus Napier that at and until the unsealing of these presents I will now [?] of the above granted and bargained premises as a [?] or & in defensible [?] , in fee simple, that the same are free from all incumbrunces [sic] and that I will forever warrant and defend the title thereof to the said Cyrus Napier & to his heirs and assigns against all claims and demands whatever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 13th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and sixty three
The State of Missouri
The County of Webster SS.
Be it remembered that John Nofsinger who are personally known to the undersigned clerk of the Webster Circuit Court within and for said County to be the person whose name are subscribed to the foregoing deed as a party thereto this day approved before me and seller acknowledges that the Executed deed delivered the same as his voluntary act and deed for the use and purposes therein contained.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court. This 13th day of October A.D. 1863
[The following is a note written in the page margin]
The original deed of which the oposite [sic] is a copy has thereupon an adhesive stamp to the amount of fifty cents denoting the deed in oposite {sic] thereon. Said adhesive stamp has thereupon the initials of the name of John Nofsinger with [?] [?] [?] dates the same of that as the original deed.
[Note: At times the second letter of Nofsinger looks like an “o” instead of an “e”. Also sometimes in this deed it it spelled with two f’s and sometimes with one “f”. In the 1860 Federal Census, Missouri, Webster Co., Hazelwood Township, page 19, his name appears to be “Norfsinger” – I’m pretty sure the “r” should be an “f” so I think the proper spelling of his name would be “Noffsinger”.]
