Bertie COUNTY   Bryan, Needham to Vann, William - 1744

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F518 Needham BRYAN to William VANN   1744  Bertie Co NC
To all people to who these presents shall come greetings
- Know ye that I Needham BRYAN of Society Parish in the
county of Bertie for and in consideration of the sum of
seventeen pounds ten shillings Virginia current money to
me in hand paid before the ensealing hereof well and
truely paid by William VANN the receipt whereof I do
hereby acknowledge and my self herewith fully satisfiyed
and contented thereof and of every part and percell
thereof do exonerate and acquit and discharge the sd Wm
VANN his heirs ex and adm forever for these presents have
giving granted bargained sold and delivered conveyed and
confirmed and by these present do freely fully and
abslutely give, grant, bargain, sell, and deliver,
convey, and confirm unto him the sd William VANN his
heirs and assigns forever one 

messuage or tract of land situating lying and being in
Bertie county containing by estimation one hundred acres
be the same more or less beginning on the northside of
Flaggey Run at John HARRELL line at a red oak 

thence No 76 E 360 pole to the center of three trees
thence So14 E along the head line to a marked pine in the
line 

thence along a line of marked trees to the head of a
branch persimmon tree thence down the branch to the main
FLAGGY RUNN 

thence down the run to the first station. 

To have and to hold the sd granted and bargained premises
with all the appurtences priviledges comoditys to the
same belonging or any wise appertaining to him the sd Wm
VANN his heirs and assigns forever to his and their only
proper use benefit and behoof forever and the said
Needham BRYAN for me my heris ex and adm do covenant,
promise, and grant to and with the sd Wm VANN his heirs
and assigns that before the ensealing hereof I am the
true sole and lawfull owner of the above bargained
premises and am lawfully seized and possessed of the same
in myown proper right as a good perfect and absolute
ESTATE of INHERITANCE in fee simple and have in myself
good right full power and lawfull authority to grant
bargain sellconvey and confir, the sd bargained
premissess in manner as above sd and that the sd Needham
BRYAN his heirs and assigns shall and may from time to
time and at all times forever hereafter by forece and
virtue of thes presents lawfully and peacably and
quietyly have hold use occupy possess and enjoy the sd
demised and bargained premisis with the appurtencace free
and clear and freely and clearly acquitted exonerated and
discharged of from all and manner or former or other
gifts, grants, bargains, sales, lease, mortgages,
intails, joynters, dowers, judgments, executions,
incumbrances, and extents furthermore I the sd Needham
BRYAN for my self my heirs ex and adm do covenenat and
engage the above demised premises unto him the sd William
VANN, his heirs and assigns against the lawfull claims or
demands of any person or persons whatsoever forever
hereafter to warrant secure and defend and Susanah BRYAN
the wife of me the sd Needham BRYAN doth by these
presents freely willingly give yeld up and surrender all
her right of dower and power of thirds of in and unto the
above demised premises unto him the sd William VANN his
heirs and assigns. In wittness whereof  I do hereunto set
my hand and seal this 8th day of May 1744. 

Needham BRYAN

Signed sealed and delivered in the presence uf us John
COLLINS, Wm COLLINS


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