Beaufort County NcArchives Deed.....Tuten, Absalom - Smaw, Thomas January 6, 1825 ************************************************ 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 November 6, 2005, 2:01 am Written: January 6, 1825 Recorded: February 1824 This Indenture made this Sixth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & twenty five Between Thomas Smaw of the County [of Beaufort] & State of North Carolina of the one part & Absalom Tuten of the County & State afsd of the other part Witnesseth that for & in consideration of the sum of three hundred & fifty five dollars to the said Thomas Smaw in hand paid by the sd Absalom Tuten have bargained Sold & delivered, and by these presents do bargain Sell & deliver unto the said Absalom Tuten a certain tract or parcel of land bounded & Situated as follows begining at Sarah Rams corner on Durhams creek runing with her line ??? to the main Road, with the main road to the old cart road leading to the Mill, with that road to a tract that divides the Mill land from the sd land with that track to the creek with the creek to the begining containing one hundred acres more or less, which said land I do warrant & forever defend unto the said Absalom Tuten his heirs Exors admrs & assigns & from me my heirs Exors admrs & assigns & from the lawful claims of all & every person or persons whatsoever. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal the day & date first above written Thomas Smaw Signed Sealed & delivered in the presence of Wm Ellison O. Smallwood February Term 1824 Beaufort County Court of Please & Quarter Sessions, then was this deed from Thomas Smaw To Absalom Tuten proved in court by the oath of William Ellison a witness thereto let it be registered. Jos: B. Hinton C. Beaufort Deed Book 13, pp. 323-324 Additional Comments: The year of the deed is probably 1824. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/beaufort/deeds/smaw54gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb