Bertie County, NC - Tuscarora Indians to McKashey & Hunter, 1786

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TUSCARORA INDIANS

Source:  Supreme Court Case #6187.  Joseph Burnett v John Thompson.  
December 1855.  Much more in folder not copied by me.  

     This Indenture, made the 26th Feby A. D. 1777 between Whitmel & 
Lewis Tuffdick, Wm Roberts, Wm Pugh, William Cain, Wine Oak, Charles & 
the Chiefs of the Tusharora Indians of the one part & John McKashey & 
Thomas Hunter of the other part, witnesseth:  that the said Whitmel 
Tuffdick & others above named for themselves and the rest of the Nation 
for and in consideration of the yearly rents of eight pounds 
proclamation money, do let & farm & lease unto the said Thomas Hunter 
and John McKaskey their heirs & assigns a certain tract or parcel of 
land in Bertie aforesaid, beginning at Pugh Williams' & Jones' corner 
above Black Gut, running that line to Black Gut necks;  then down the 
swamp oposite, against the head of Chocawink Gut to a corner Cypress;  
thence a direct course to the mouth of Chocowink Gut, then the various 
of Roanoke River to the mouth of Black Gut, & from thence to the first
Station, which said land, we the said Whitmel Tuffdick & the above 
mentioned Tusharora Indians &c do warrant, secure & confirm unto the 
said Thomas Hunter & John McKashey, heirs & assigns during the
term of time ninety nine years, the said Thomas Hunter & John McKashey 
for themselves their heirs & assigns, do covenant, promise & agree to & 
with the said Indians that they will pay truly & faithfully, cause to be 
paid to the said Tusharora Indians, the said yearly rents of the sum 
aforesaid.  In witness whereof, the parties have hereunto set their 
hands & seals the day & year first above written.  Signed,
sealed and delivered in the presence of
William Williams & Thomas Pugh
Whitmel Tuffdick (seal)
Wm (his mark) Roberts (seal)
Wm Cain (seal)
Wm Bush (seal)
Wine (his mark) Oak (seal)
John (his mark) Smith (seal)
William Pugh (seal)
John McKashey (seal)
Thomas Hunter (seal)
     I do hereby assign all my right, title and interest of the within 
Lease to John McKashey for the valuable consideration of three hundred & 
fifty-pounds current money, as witness my hand & seal, this
24 day of January 1786
J. Bryan
J. Cherry                                    Thomas Hunter (seal)
Thomas Jones

State of North Carolina
         Bertie County                         May Term 1803
     The within Lease, from Whitmel Tuffdick to John McKashey & Thomas 
Hunter, was proved in open Court by the oath of William Williams one of 
the subscribing witnesses, and the assignment from Thomas Hunter to John 
McKashey, by the oath of Joseph Cherry one of the subscribing witnesses, 
and ordered to be registered.
                                     George Gray, Clk.
     Certified to be a correct copy from the Register's Office of Bertie 
County.
                                     David E. Tayloe, Reg'r
                                     By L. S. Webb, D. Reg'r

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