Bertie  COUNTY  NC  Deeds Alcany Dempsey & Wife to Elizabeth Willoughby

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Bertie County, NC Deed Book pg's 171 & 172 ~


Alcany Dempsey & Wife
To: Deed
Elizabeth Willoughby


This indenture made this twenty-first day of May in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
one between Alcany Dempsey and wife Celia Ann Dempsy of
the State of North Carolina and County of Bertie of the
one part and Elizabeth Willoughby of the other part,
witnessed that the said Alcany Dempsy and wife Celia
Ann Dempsy for and in consideration for the sum of
eighteen dollars to them in hand paid by the said
Elizabeth Willoughby the receipt whereof is here by
acknowledged have bargained and sol and by these
presents doth give, grant, bargain and sell unto her
the said Elizabeth Willoughby her heirs and assigns all
of said Albany Dempsey’s and wife Celia Ann Dempsey’s
interest and right in and to the land belonging to the
estate of John Willoughby deceased lying in the
aforesaid county of Bertie, bounded by the land of
David Hoggard Asa F. Early and others to Have and to
Hold the above bounded and sold premises to her the
said Elizabeth Willoughby her heirs and assigns
forever, and the said Alcany Dempsy and wife Celia
Dempsy their Heirs, Executors, administrations and
assigns doth covenant and agree to and with the said
Elizabeth Willoughby her heirs, executors,
administration and assigns to warrant and defend all
the right and title vested in said Alcany Dempsey and
wife Celia Ann Dempsey in the above bounded and sold
land forever free and clean from all manner of
encumbrances, in Witness whereof the said Alcaney
Dempsey and wife Celia Ann Dempsy doth hereunto set
their hands and seal this day and date first about
written.

Signed, Sealed and delivered}  
Alcany Dempsey {seal}    [his mark]
                              }
Celia Ann Dempsey {seal} [her mark]

in presence of 
Willie Dunning
Joseph G. Willoughby
H.H. Hardy
State of North Carolina
Bertie County Court Aug. Term 1851.

The execution of the foregoing deed from Alcany Dempsey
and wife Celia Ann Dempsey to Elizabeth Willoughby was
proved in open court by the oath of Willie Dunning one
of the subscribing witnesses thereof. Whereupon, it is
ordered by the Court that H.H. Hardy one of the
justices of said Court examine the said Celia Ann
Dempsey separate and apart from her husband privately
concerning her free and voluntary execution of said
Deed,

The said H. H. Hardy one of the Justices having made
said examination within the verge of the Court, reports
that he examined the said Celia Ann Dempsey separate
and apart from her husband and that she saith that she
executed the said deed freely and voluntarily and
without any constraints or compulsion of her husband
and that she doth now assent to the same.  

Ordered that the said deed with this certificate be
registered.  
 
E.A. Rhodes, Clerk

By W.P. Gurley