Bertie County NcArchives Deed.....Hendren, John - Ruffin, James & Margaret 1817
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Virginia Crilley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000642 February 15, 2007, 3:40 pm

Written: 1817

Deed Book X  pg 404

Jan 4, 1817

Ruffin to Hendren

This Indenture made this twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and seventeen (1817),  between James Ruffin of the
one part and John Hendren of the other part both of the State of North Carolina
& county of Bertie witnesseth that the said James Ruffin has bargained and sold
and put into the possession of the aforesaid John Hendren a certain tract or
messuage of land lying in the aforesaid State & County on the South side of deep
Branch butted and bounded as follows.

Beginning at a black-gum Thomas Veales and James Grimes corner in deep Branch  

thence up the various coarses of said Branch 63 pole to Kenneth Clark's line

Then along his line S10 W 65 pole to a red Oak in Isaac Gardner's line

Then along his line S 64 1/2 E 28 pol to a dead  pine James Grimes   Charles
King and Isaac Gardners corner

Then bounded by Charles King's line to a pine in said King's line  Thomas Veals
& James Grimes corner 

Then N 65 W 31 pole to the first station -
all of which land in the above boundary containing by estimation fifty four
acres be the same more or less & I the said James Ruffin for myself my heirs,
Execs, Admist & assigns have bargained sold and conveyed to the said John
Hendren him his heirs exer or Adm with all the privileges profits or advantages
therein contained or in any wise appertaining to him and his heirs and assigns
forever for the sum of one hundred & Ninety five dollars $195 to me the said
James Ruffin in hand paid the rec't whereof I hereby acknowledge myself fully
satisfied and paid and furthermore I the said James Ruffin do warrant and agree
to and with the said John Hendren do forever warrant & defend the title of the
said land unto the said John Hendren clear from all incumbrances rights or
claims of any person whatsoever for myself my heirs, exers or Adms as witness
our hand & seals the day and date above mentioned.
James Ruffin  (seal)
Margaret Ruffin  (x her mark) Seal

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us
Jas Wimberly
Baliss H. Bond

Additional Comments:
James Ruffin was the son of William and Penelope Ruffin.

He and Margaret were moving to Jones County, GA about this time. James died
there around 1820 and his "orphans" participated in the Georgia Land Lotteries.

Since she signed this deed as well, this land might have been part of her Veal
family.  She was a daughter of Thomas Veale.

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