From the papers of Merry T. Pittman
From the papers of Merry T. Pittman
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This Indenture made this the 4th day of November in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty five between Thomas Springfield of the County of Chatham and State of North Carolina of the one part and Joseph Avent of the County and State aforesaid of the other part witnesseth that the said Thomas Springfield for and in consideration of the sum of Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars to him in hand paid by the said Joseph Avent the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and himself therewith fully satisfied hath given bargained sold and conveyed and by these presents doth fully clear and absolutely give bargain sell and convey to him the said Joseph Avent his heirs and assigns forever two certain tracts of land in one being in the County and State aforesaid lying on Henry’s branch waters of Cape Fear Beginning at a dead pine Drake’s corner and running East twenty two poles to a white white oak Yarborough’s corner then south with his line seventeen poles and four links to a small pine thence West with Judd’s line ninety nine poles to a stake in the old line thence South with said line thirty seven poles to a stake thence North One Hundred and Twenty poles to a pine in Abner Hill’s line thence East two hundred and forty poles to a Red Oak on the Ferry Road thence South across ^Henry’s branch and^ the said road sixty six poles to the first station containing One Hundred and Sixty Four and a half Acres be the same more or less with all the revision and revisions, remainder and remainders To Have and To Hold the said land and premises together with all and singularly the appurtenances thereunto belonging as in any wise appertaining to the said bargained
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land and premises to the said Joseph Avent his heirs and assigns forever and the said Thomas Springfield doth for himself his heirs executors and administrators warrant and forever defend the right and title of the aforesaid land and premises unto him the said Joseph Avent his heirs and assigns free and clear from encumbrances and from the lawful claim or claims of any person whatsoever
In witness whereof I the said Thomas Springfield have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal the day and date first above written
Thomas Springfield [seal]
signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of
William Avent
Nathaniel Clegg
Chatham County February Sessions 1836
The execution of this deed was proven in open court by the oath of Nathaniel Clegg a subscribing witness and ordered to be registered
Thomas Ragland
Chatham County
Registers office the 16th April 1836
This deed was then duly registered in
said office Book AD pages 354 and 355
A. Gunter P. Regr
