BERTIE COUNTY   Deed  Ellis, Robert to Phillip Smith 1739

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Bertie County
Deed Book F 122

To all people to whome these presents shall come I Robert ELLIS of Bertie 
County  in North Carolina send Greeting in our Lord God Everlasting now 
Know ye that I Robert ELLIS for and in consideration of the sum of Twenty 
five pounds Currency of Virginia to me in hand before the Ensealing hereof 
will and truly paid by Phillip SMITH the receipt whereof I do hereby 
acknowledge and my self therewith fully satisfied and content and thereof 
and of every part and parcel thereof do exonerate, acquitt and discharge 
the said Phillip SMITH his heirs Execs forever by these presents Have 
given, granted, bargained, sold, aliened, conveyed and confirmed unto him 
the said Phillip SMITH, his heirs and assigns forever, one messuage or 
Tract of Land containing
three hundred acres of land be the same more or less scituate lying and 
being in Bertie County Between Emanuel ROGERS and Phillip SMITHs land,
  Late John GRAYS Land beginning at a maple on the ___side,
  Phillp SMITHs corner tree so with his lines to the center of three white 
oaks,
  another of the said SMITHS corner, so to another corner white oak 
dividing the said ELLIS and the heirs of Robert ELLIS dec'd so with a line 
of marked trees in and by a small drean to the corner field of the said 
ELLIS and Robt dec'd and through the sd field and ___ to a corner pine thence
  to a corner red oak, Emanuel ROGERS then with his line to the river 
thence up the river to the first station where it begun.
To have and to hold forever the said granted and bargained premise with all 
the appurtenances, privileges and commodities to the same belonging or in 
anywise appertaining with all houses, orchards, clear grounds, woodland 
grounds, pasture grounds, swamp pocoson water and water courses and all 
other liberties therein and thereon contained to him the said Phillip SMITH 
heir heirs and assigns forever to his and heirs only proper use, benefit 
and behoof forever and I the said Robt ELLIS for me, my heirs, Exec', adms 
do covenant, promise and grant to and with the said Phillip sMITH 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 mine own proper right as a good, perfect and absolute Estate 
of Inheritance in fee simple and have in my self good right, full power and 
lawfull authority to grant, bargain, sell, convey and confirm the said 
bargained premises in manner as above said and that the said Phillip SMITH, 
his heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and at all times 
hereafter by force and virtue of these presents lawfully, peaceable and 
quietly Have, use, occupy, possess and enjoy the said demised and bargained 
land and premises with all the appurtenances free and clear and free and 
clear and freely and clearly acquitted, exonerated and discharged of from 
all and all manner of former grants and other grants, gifts, bargains, 
sales, leases, mortgages, wills, entails, , joyners, dowries, judgments, 
executions, incumbrances and extents. Furthermore I the said Robert ELLIS 
for my self my heirs, exec, adms do covenant and engage the above demised 
premises to him the said Phillip SMITH his heirs and assigns against the 
lawfull claims and demands of any person and persons whatsoever forever, 
hereafter to warrant, secure and defend the sale of the same.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this ninth day of 
February in the year of Our Lord 1740: Robert ELLIS his mark and seal

Signed Sealed and delivered in presence and sight of us_
Robert HARRIS, Jurat, John WILLEY, John MOOR

Bertie County  ye February court 1739  The above deed of sale was duly 
proved in open court by the oath of Robert HARRIS one of the subscribing 
witnesses thereto ___ ____motion is ordered to be registered.