GREENE COUNTY, NC - Deed/Slave Indenture. - Dixon, Mary, to Children, 1854. ======================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Mewborn Marble May 1999 ======================================================================== MARY DIXON TO CHILDREN, 1854 Copy of original document found at Heritage Place, Lenoir County Community College, Kinston, North Carolina. Original in the Martha Sugg Dixon Papers was in the possession of Wm L. Murphy, deceased. (Note: I am not sure if these papers are now found in the Murphy Collection at ECU Joyner Library) - abstracted and donated by Ima Eula Mewborn We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. 5 July 1854 - Know ye all men by these words, that I, Mary Dixon of the county of Green, State of North Carolina, do make this indenture on the 5th day of July, 1854, in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty Four. Now witnesseth that I the said Mary Dixon being old in age and knowing that my appointed time to die draws ever closer & being mindfull to give those of my black people good homes and masters & to spare them the saddness of being sold upon the block do make gift of my said people to my differeant (six) children in the manner following, viz: To my four daughters, I give each one negroe. That is to say to Esther Ormond I give one negroe man named Wade. To Nancy Williams I give one negroe girl named Hannack. To Penelope Cannady I give one negro man named Ruben. To Mary Dixon, called the younger I give one negro woman named Rebeccah. To have and to hold said slaves for their life-times and then to their lawful heirs and assigns. To my son Robert Dixon I give three negroes, viz. One negroe man named Long Jack, one boy named short Jack and one girl named Dinah, to have for his lifetime & then to his lawful heirs and assigns. To my son Richard Dixon I give three negroes, a man named Boe, a woman named Cindia and one girl named Mattie. To my son Henry Dixon I give four negroes, a man named Haywood, his wife Lucy, their son Dick and a girl named Sukey, to have to his lifetime and then to his lawful heirs & assigns. To my son Frank Dixon, I give three negroes, a woman named Littie and her two children Poll and Caster, to have for his lifetime & then to his lawful heirs and assigns. To my son Willis Dixon I give two negroes a man named Rouse and a woman named Annie, to have for his lifetime and then to his lawful heirs and assigns. It is also my desire that my old nurse and companion Elveda be given her freedom for so many years of faithful servace and that my son Henry Dixon maintain her in the little cottage behind the kitchen for her old age and blindness with the house and board and every of her needs for the rest of her life. And so saying, I the said Mary Dixon do set my hand & seal the day & date above written. WIT Sith Moor, Norfleet Vinson, Nancy Harper