Bertie County, NC - Deeds - Edward Hocutt to Benjamin Hooker

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Edward Hocutt to Benjamin Hooker
Deeds of Bertie County, Book G, p. 262

North Carolina
To all People to whom these presents shall come Greeting.  Know ye that I
Edward Hocutt of Bertie Precinct for and in consideration of the sum of 
Twenty pounds Current money of said province to me in hand paid by Benjamin 
Hooker of said County Planter with which I acknowledge myself contented . . 
. fully freely Clearly and absolutely Give grant bargain Sell allien 
Enforsse Release Convey Confirm Assign Transsfer and Set over unto him the 
said Benjamin Hooker his heirs and assigns forever a Certain Dividend or 
parcell of Land Situate lying and being in Bertie County on a Branch of 
Mount Pleasant Mill Creek Containing by Estimation Fifty Acres be the same 
more or less Butted and bounded as follows to wit:  Beginning at William 
Hooker's line thence a line of marked trees to a pine Corner of Benitts 
Thence a line of marked Trees to a Oak on a large Branch of Sandy Run 
Thence the said Branch to the said Sandy Run from thence up the Sandy Run 
its various courses to the first station.  To have and to hold the said 
Land Bargained and Sold as aforesaid and all and Singular the Rights 
priviledges Comodities, hereditants, appurtenances and appendants thereunto 
belonging or in any wise appertaining unto him the said Benjamin Hooker his 
heirs and assigns forever in Fee Simple absolutely in as full and ample 
manner to all intents and purposses as the most Learned in the Law can 
Devise warrant and Defend the said Land free from all Encumberances 
whatsoever Except accruing Justrents.  In Witness whereoff the said Edward
Hocutt has hereunto Set my hand and Seal the 8th day of June Anno Dom. 1748.  
                                     Edward (his mark) Hocutt and seal

Sealed and delivered in presence of us William Hooker, James Stephen 
Hooker, James Bennitt

Bertie County, February Court, 1749  Recorded