Beaufort County NcArchives Deed.....Grist, Richard - Pearce, Joseph October 24, 1823 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kathy Wilde wildekat@hotmail.com October 26, 2005, 5:32 am Written: October 24, 1823 Recorded: August 1826 This Indenture made this 24th of October 1823 between Joseph Pearce of the County of Beaufort of the first part & Richard Grist Executor of Slade Pearce of the same County of the second part; Witnesseth that the said Joseph for and in consideration of his obligation bearing date the 10th Augt A.D. 1821. for Four hundred fifty dollars & sixty eight and an half cents and payable to the party of the second part, being delivered up to him by the said party of the second part and release thereon endorsed bearing even date with these presents of all the monies deemed by said obligation to the said party of the second part, He, the said party of the first part hath given granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth give grant bargain and sell to the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns, the following tracts or parcels of land lying on the South side of Pamptico River and west side of Blounts Creek, that is to say, one tract beginning at the mouth of the little gut above Slade Pearce’s landing, at a pine said to be the beginning of a Patent granted to Edmond Pearce for Five hundred and twenty acres, bearing date 10th June 1706, running up the various courses of said gut, so far as to make ninety one pole upon a straight line to a swamp or black gum and pointers standing at the mouth of a small bottom making into the South side of said Gut. then South fifty six & a half west, Two hundred & fifty six pole to a pine on the side of a road near a branch in the back line of said Patent, then with the back line of said Patent reversed, South, thirty, East forty five pole to the second corner therof, two gums and a bay standing in a small branch, thence reversing the first line of said Patent, North, sixty, East three hundred & twenty poles to the beginning containing one hundred acres. Also one other tract joining the above described tract on the South East beginning at a white oak on the River side and on the upper side of a small swamp known by the name of the Black Nose Swamp and runs a West course to the back line near to tar- kiln branch, thence down the said line to a pine near the mouth of the above little gut and from thence along the river side to the beginning, containing by estimation, one hundred acres, be the same more or less — also all my right title and interest for one share of one of my children in One hundred acres of land joining the last mentioned given by Benjamin Pearce to the children of the said Joseph Pearce — The two last mentioned tracts are intended to include all the land in which the said Joseph Pearce has any right contained in the boundaries of a Patent granted to Slade Pearce dated 23rd November 1801. To have and to hold all right,title and interest which the said Joseph Pearce hath in severrally in the first tract of One hundred acres & in common or in severrally in the second tract to the said Richard Grist and his heirs upon the following trusts nevertheless & no other. That he will hold such lands subject to the dower of the Widow of Slade Pearce and to the use of such Auditors of Slade Pearce as shall prosecute their claims to Judgment and execution against the lands of the said Slade in the hands of his heirs and devisees & if no such dower or judgment & execution be obtained, then in trust as to three fourths of said lands either to the heirs at law of Slade Pearce or to Olivia Ann Brickell and Mirina Brickell and their heirs or to the heirs at law of Slade Pearce as they may have title: And the said Joseph for himself and his heirs doth covenant to and with the said Richard and his heirs & Executors and assigns that he hath a good title in the premises and full power to convey the same and that the said lands shall be and remain in the quiet possession of the said Richard and his heirs to the trusts and purposes herein declared free from all incumbrance, let. hindrance claim or demand of all persons whatsoever, and that the said Joseph and his heirs will at all times hereafter execute any conveyance to the said Richard and his heirs or assigns or to any person he shall direct for the purpose of conveying said lands herein conveyed or intended to be to the trusts herein declared or intended to be so that the Creditors, devisees widow or heirs at law of Slade Pearce may have their title therein according to law. In Testimony whereof the parties to these presents have set their seals the day & year first above mentioned. Joseph Pearce Signed Sealed & delivered in presence of Test. Michael Hill Know all men by these presents that I Richard Grist Executor of Slade Pearce, in pursuance of a decree of the Court of Equity of Beaufort County made at the Spring Term of 1822 have released and do hereby release to Joseph Pearce all the right and demand that I have to any sum of money by the within obligation. Witness my hand & Seal Rich Grist Witness Michl Hill August Term 1826 Beaufort Co Pleas and Qr Sessions Then George Hill came here into Court & being sworn, saith that the signature of Joseph Pearce to the within Deed is in the proper hand writing of the said Joseph and that the signature of Michael Hill the subscribing Witness to the within Deed is in the proper handwriting and that he said Michael is dead. Ordered that the Deed be Registered. Jos. B Hinton C[lk] Additional Comments: Slade Pearce Beaufort Deed Book 14, p. 218 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/beaufort/deeds/pearce32gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 6.0 Kb