Bertie County NcArchives Deed.....Veal, William - Purvis, Allen & Ann 1798
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Written: 1798

Purvis & wife to Veale


This indenture written this 15th day of November in the year One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Ninety Eight between William Veal of the State of Virginia and
County of Norfolk of one part and Allen Purvis of the State of North Carolina of
the other part.  Witnesseth that the said Allen Purvis hath bargained sold and
put into the possession of the aforesaid William Veal a certain tract or
messuage of land lying and being in the State of North Carolina and County of
Bertie on the North side of Rocquist Swamp it being the place he the said Allen
Purvis now at this time reside on Bertie and Bounded as follows beginning at a
black gum in Run of the Broad Branch
Thence up the various courses of said Run N66 W12 pole 
Thence S8  1/2  W 12 pole
Thence N 66 1/2 W 14 pole
Thence S70 W 16 pole
Thence N77 W 14 pole
Thence N55 W 10 pole
Thence N42 W 20 pole
......
to a dead pine John Gardners' Dec'd corner
Thence along said Gardner's line S25 @ 106 pole to a small pine at the corner of
the field
Thence S17 W120 pole to a Water Oak
Tence S70 E 92 pol to a sweet gum
Thence S15 W140 pole to a gum 
Thence along s'd line a South coast to the center of two gums and a maple John
Gardner's Dec'd corner in the old pattern line  thence E33 pol to a water oak a
corner in Martin Gardner's.....

all which lands within the above Boundary containing three hundred and Eighty
acres and one half acre be there more or less.  I, the said Allen Purvis for
myself, my heirs, executors, Adms. have sold, bargained and conveyed to the said
William Veal him his Heirs, Executors or Adm with all the privileges profits or
advantages therein contained or in any otherwise appertaining to him and his 
use for the sum of Fifteen Hundred dollars  to me the said Allen Purvis in hand
paid the receipt whereof...... William Veal clear from all encumbrances rights
or claims for any person what5soever for me my heirs executors or administrators
as witness my hand and seal the day and date above mentioned.

Allen Purvis
Anna Purvis

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us
Thomas Veale
Richard Veal
Maurice Veal

State of North Carolina. County Bertie.  Nov Term 1798
The within deed from Allen and Anne Purvis to William Veale was proven in open
court by the oath of Thomas Veale one of the subscribing witnesses and ordered
to be registered.   George Gray CC

Registered in the Bertie Registers Office Book S page 45
Test David Turner, P. Register

Additional Comments:
Handwritten deed in Veal Family Papers Collection No 722. East Carolina
Manuscript Collection . J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University,
Greenville, N.C.

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