Columbus County Indenture- JAMES RAY



Submitted by Bette Dew, April 1998
North Carolina, Columbus County, NC
All rights reserved, 1998.

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THIS INDENTURE, MADE IN THE  FIFTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER IN THE YEAR OF
OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN BETWEEN JAMES RAY OF
THE STATE OF NORHT CAROLINA AND COUNTY OF COLUMBUS AND SETH DUE [DEW]
AND ANNEY BEASBY [COULD BE BEASLEY] AND JOHN RAY AND J[ESSI]E RAY AND
JONIAH RAY OF THE ONE PART AND ELIZABETH RAY OF THE OTHER PART.
WITNESSITH THAT WE THE ABOVE MENTIONED PERSONS FOR AND INCONSIDERATION
OF THE SUM OF TEN DOLLARS TO US IN HAND PAID THE RECIEPT WHEREOF  WE THE
ABOVE MENTIONED PERSONS DO ACKNOWLEDGE OURSELVES TO BE FULLY SATISFIED
CONTENTED AND PAID HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTES SOLD AND BY THEN PRESENTS DO
GIVE GRANT BAGAIN SELL AND CONVEY UNTO THE AFORE AND ELIZABETH RAY OF
SAID COUNTY A CERTAIN PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND CONTAINING ONE HUNDRED
ACRES IT BEING PART OF A HUNDRED ACRES SURVEY PATENTED BY JONIAH RAY
FIFTY ACRES OF THAT AND FIFTY ACRES PATENED BY JAMIMA RAY LYING AND
BRING IN THE COUNTY AFORS'D AND BEINGING AT JONIAH RAY BEGINNING AT
JONIAH RAYS BEGINNING CORNER A WHITE OAK ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF WELCHES
CREEK AND RUNNING WITH HIS EAST LINE. NORTH AND THEN AS THE ORIGINAL
PLAT DIRECTS THEIR BEING FIFTY ACRES ON BOTH SIDES OF THAT LINE, TO HAVE
AND TO HOLD THE AFORSAID HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND UNTO THE SAID ELIZEBETH
RAY AND HER HEIRS WITH EVERY APPURTEN???? THERONTO BELONGING OR IN
ANY???? APPERTAINING AND USE THE ABOVE MENTIONED PERSONS DO BIND OUR
SELVES OUR HEIRS EXCUTORS ADMINISTRATORS AND AFSIGNS JOINTLY AND
SEVERALLLY TO BE CONTENT AND FOREVER DEFINS THE SAID LAND AND PREMINES
UNTO HER THE SAID ELIZABETH RAY THAT HER OURSELVES OR ANY OF US WILL
MAKE ANY OTHER TITLE OR TITLES COUNSEL SHALL DEVINS OR ADVIN AND FOR THE
MORE EFFECTUAL AND BETTER SURVEING THE A FORESAID LAND.  M. WITNESSS
WHEREOF WE HAVE HERUNTO SET OUR HADN AND SEAL THIS 25TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER
1817
GEORGE RABURN SIGNED SEALED & DELIVERED     JONIAH RAY
CORNELIUS RAY  IN PRESENCE OF US            JAMES RAY
                                            MARYANN BEASLEY
                                            J[ESS]IE RAY
                                            SETH DUE [DEW]

                                 
              ©1998 Jerome Smith, Columbus County Coordinator
         Columbus County, North Carolina, USA All rights reserved.



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