GREENE COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - Edward Patrick to Jesse Coward File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Mewborn Marble mmarble@erols.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ COLLECTION OF MARTHA ELEANOR MOSELEY - NC ARCHIVES, RALEIGH, NC - PC1827 Collection donated by Julia Moseley Combs, abstracted by Martha Mewborn Marble. Copies of the originals in my possession. A few of these documents are NOT in the Collection and are so noted. INDENTURE BETWEEN EDWARD PATRICK AND JESSE COWARD This Indenture made the twenty Sixth day of November AD one thousand eight hundred and forty seven between EDWARD PATRICK of the County of Greene and State of North Carolina on the one part and JESSE COWARD of the County of Greene and State of North Carolina on the other part witnesseth that the said EDWARD PATRICK for ---- the sum of seven hundred ninety Seven dollars and fifty cents --- paid by said JESSE COWARD --- hath granted, sold ---- several tracts or parcels of land namely one tract lying in County of Greene near the waters of Wheat Swamp on the southside of Contentnea Creek mentioned in the report of the said PATRICK revision as lot No 3 Bounded as follows: Beginning at BASSE corner a red oak and runs North 25 west to the head of Goose hale branch, a corner of lot No 2 and 4 and runs with lot No 2 down the same to the big branch then up the big branch and with the lines of a piece of land purchased of ALEXANDER HARPER and one tract of J. P. DUNN by said deed to the DARNELL land thence with the same South 54 west to a pine in a small Branch, J. P. DUNN’s corner and from thence to the beginning containing eighty five acres. One other tract lying in the County of Greene deeded to the said EDWARD PATRICK from the estate of MENAN PATRICK dec and known in the report of the MENAN PATRICK division as Lot #2 Bounded as follows: Beginning at the beginning corner of Lot #1 and runs South 89 ½ east to the back line and last corner of Lot No 1 thence South 1 west 12 poles to a marked pole thence 27 west 5 poles to a stake then South 79 west to the dividing line between EDWARD PATRICK and MENAN PATRICK and of the DANIEL PATRICK division then North 21 West 50 poles to the Beginning for Twenty Six and a half acres and nine poles. One other tract deeded to the said EDWARD PATRICK from the estate of PERSEY PATRICK dec and lying with the county of Lenoir and for boundaries refer to the report of the PERCEY PATRICK division filed at the Courthouse ---- WIT J. W. McGOWNS ?? JNO A. MOORE To Court Fall Term 1854 Enrolled Greene county Book 22 ? pages 280, 1 & 181 30 January 1855 Will. Dixon Register