Craven County NcArchives Court.....William Lister, William Heritage & 1782
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1782

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1782
1782 
Volume 24, Pages 413 - 474

CHAPTER XXXIX.

An Act for establishing the Copy of a Deed therein mentioned.

I. Whereas it hath been made to appear to the General Assembly that William 
Heritage, late of Craven County, Esquire, did sell certain lands lying in 
Craven County, in this State, to William Lister, late of the said county, 
deceased, and that the said William Heritage did, in due form convey the said 
lands by deed of bargain and sale under his hand and seal, dated the twenty 
eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 
forty eight, to Phoebe Lister and Mary Lister, the surviving and only heirs of 
the said William Lister, and that the said deed from unavoidable casualties 
has not been registered, although it hath been duly proved agreeable to law, 
and since lost; and as Richard Nassau Stephens, husband to Mary Stephens, now 
sole surviving heir of the said William Lister, hath obtained and produced to 
the General Assembly a paper purporting to be a true copy of the aforesaid 
deed from William Heritage, to Phoebe and Mary Lister, for the following 
lands, to wit. All that message or tenement, lot or half acre of ground, 
situate lying and being in the town of Newbern, in Craven County, in this 
State, which is known and distinguished by number fifty one, lying on the 
south side of the lot commonly known by the name of the church lot, together 
with the said church lot, with all the houses, edifices and buildings, 
whatsoever thereon standing; and also two tracts of land lying in Craven 
County on the north side of Trent river, the one tract bounded as followeth, 
viz. Upon Lawson's branch beginning at two red oaks, the upper corner trees of 
Richard Elliott's land, and running thence north forty five degrees east 
eighty four pole, thence north twenty nine west twenty pole, thence west one 
hundred pole, thence south sixty west fifty six pole to a pine, thence south 
seventy eight west one hundred and sixteen pole to a pine, thence north sixty 
west one hundred and forty six pole to a pine, thence south forty three west 
forty three pole to a pine, thence south thirty three east ninety two pole, 
thence south sixty east, two hundred and seventy one pole to a pine, thence 
north forty two east seventy one pole, thence north sixty eight east ninety 
four pole to a red oak by the side of a branch, branching from Lawson's 
branch, commonly called the School-house branch, thence with a straight line 
to the beginning, containing three hundred and twenty six acres: And one other 
tract of land on the same side of Trent river, a mile above Newbern, beginning 
at a white oak, a corner tree of Cullen Pollock's lands, thence south fifty 
degrees west one hundred and sixty pole to a red oak, thence south forty east 
two hundred pole to a pine, thence north fifty east one hundred and sixty pole 
to a cypress, thence to the first station, containing two hundred acres of 
land; and the said copy of a deed for the before recited lands, signed with 
the name of William Heritage, and attested by John Wright, John Rice, and 
Richard Lovick, bearing date the twenty eighth day of March, in the year of 
our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty eight, and the probate thereof 
as attested by E. Hall, the then chief justice, having been made appear to the 
satisfaction of the General Assembly to be the true, absolute, and exact copy 
of the before mentioned original deed of sale;

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North 
Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall 
and may be lawful for the register of the county of Craven, and he is hereby 
required, on application of the said Richard Nassau Stephens, or any other 
person on behalf of the said Mary Stephens, to cause the before recited copy 
of a deed to be registered in the register's office of said county, and the 
said copy is hereby declared to be good and valid in law and equity, and shall 
forever hereafter be deemed and considered as an original deed of bargain and 
sale, for all and every the lands therein mentioned, any law, usage or custom, 
to the contrary notwithstanding.


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