BERTIE COUNTY Deeds Spivey, Caleb to Harrell,Thomas-1743 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Cathy Farris cfassir@netdex.com F494 1743 SPIVEY to HARRELL To all people to who these presents shall come greeting. Know ye that I Caleb SPIVEY of Bertie Co in the province of North Carolina for and in consideration of the sum of Forty pounds current money of Virginia to me in hand paid before the ensealing thereof well & truely paid by Thomas HARRELL of the same county & province the receipt whereof I doe hereby acknowledge & myself therewith fully satisfyd and contented & thereof & of every part & parcell thereof doe acquit exonerate & dischare the said Tho HARRELL his heirs Exe Adm & assigns forever by these presents hereof given granted bargained sold alliend conveyed & confirm & by these presents do freely fully & absolutely give grant bargain & sell sign & confirm unto him the said Thom HARRELL his heirs & assigns forever on messuage or tract of land & plantation situate lying & being in Bertie County in North Carolina containing by estimation three hundred acres be the same more or less butted bounded beginning at Wm HINTON's line in the VILLAGE SWAMP thence No42 320 pole to the center of three trees a white oak a willo oak & a hickory thence No 35 E 60 pole to a red oak thence So46 70? pole to the center of the trees in Theopolis WILLIAMS line a white oak a gum & a maple thence along WILLIAMS line to Thom BOND line to the first station out of a patant granted to Wm GRAY the patant bearing date the 1st day of April 1725. To have & to hold the sd granted & bargained premises with all the appertances priviledges commodities to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining to him the sd Thom HARRELL his heirs & assigns forever to his & his heirs only proper use bebnfitt & behoof forever. I the sd Caleb SPIVEY for me my heirs Exe & Adm do covenant promise & grant to & with the sd Thom HARRELL his heirs & assigns that before the ensealing hereof I am the true sole & lawfull owner of the above bargained premises & am lawfully & seized & seized of possessed of the same in mine own proper right as a good perfect & absolute estate of Inheritance in fee simple and have in myself god right fulls-Power and lawfull authority to grant bargain sell and convey and confirm the sd bargained premise in manner as above sd and that these Thom HARRELL his heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and at all times forever thereafter by force and virtue of these presents lawfully peaceably and quietly have hold use occupy possess and enjoy the sd demised and bargained premises witht he appurtences free and clear and freely and clearly acquitted exonerated and discharged of from all and all manner of former and other gifts grant bargains sales leans mortgages will entails joyntures dowries judgments executions incumbrances and extents furthermore I the sd Caleb SPIVEY for myself my heirs exe and adms doe covenant and engage the above demised premises to him the sd Thom HARRELL his heirs and assigns against the lawfull claims or demands of nay person or persons whatsoever forever hereafter to warrant secure and defend and Elizabeth the wife of me the sd Caleb SPIVEY doth by these presents freely willing give yee ___?up and surrender all her right of dowry and power of thirds of in and unto the above demised premises unto him the sd Thomas HARRELL his heirs and assigns in Wittness I hereunto set my hand and fix my seal this 13th day of June 1743. Signed Sealed and Delivered in presence of us Caleb SPIVEY & seal Needham BRYAN Sam HARRELL Wm BRYAN Bertie County August Court 1743 the above deed of sale was acknowledged in open court in due form of law and on ___? order to be reg ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentatio