Deed, Robert Russell and wife to Levin Gray, 1791, Guilford Co. NC
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Deed Robert Russell & wife to Levin Gray, 1791
Guilford County, North Carolina Bk 5 p. 273

This Indenture this Seventeenth Day of March in the Year of Our Lord one 
Thousand Seven hundred and Ninety one by & between Robert Russell Sr. & Susannah 
his wife of Guilford County in the State of North Carolina of the one part & 
Levin Gray of the same County & State of the other part Witnesseth that the said 
Robert Russell and Susannah for & in consideration of the sum of twenty five 
pounds good & Lawfull money to the said Robert Russell in hand paid by the said 
Levin Gray at or Before the Sealing & Delivery of these presents the Receipt 
whereof the said Robert Russell hereby acknowledeth & thereof doth acquit & 
discharge the said Levin Gray his Heirs & assigns for ever & by these present 
doth give grant Bargain Sell alien Enfeoff Convey & Confirm unto the said Levin 
Gray a Tract or parcel of Land Lying in Guilford County & State aforesaid on the 
waters of the Reedy Fork of Haw River Begining at a white Oak on the West Bank 
of a Branch runing West Ninety two poles to a post Oak in Thomas Maxwells line 
thence North on his line thirty poles to his corner Black Oak thence North on 
his own line Twenty two poles to a Black Oak thence East thirty poles to a Red 
oak on the Bank of a Branch thence down the various mainders of said Branch to 
the first Station containing fifty acres be the same more or less it being a  
part of said Robert Russell old survey of Five hundred acres & likewise a part 
of his late survey of one hundred acres as  also all the Estate Right, Title , 
Interest property Claim & demand whatsoever of them the said Robert Russell & 
Susannah his wife of in and unto every part & parcel of the afforesaid tract or 
parcel of land & premises & Every part thereof with their & Every of their  
appurtenances thereunto Belonging to have & to hold the afforesaid the Tract or 
parcel of Land & premises hereby bargained and unto the said Levin Gray his 
Heirs and assigns for Ever to his & their proper use Benefit & Behoof for ever 
the said Robert Russell & Susannah Doth grant they will for themselves & for 
their heirs and assigns & every of them Warrant & forever Defend the above 
Bargained premises unto the said Levin Grey his Heirs & Assigns forever against 
& from them said Robert Russell & Susannah & their Heirs & all & Every other 
person Claiming by from or under them or any other person In Witness wherof they 
have Hereunto set their hand & affixed their Seals the Day & Year above Written
s/ Robert Russell (seal)
s/ Susannah her X mark Russell (seal)

Signed Sealed & Delivered in the present of
Nobel Covey
William Covery

State of North Carolina }  November Session 1791
Guilford County}

The Execution of the within Deed was acknowledged in open court on motion let it 
be recorded Test: John Hamilton CC
Duly Recorded JH
Transcribed by Martha Thayer