Johnston County, NC – B.B. Rose, Admr. of A.H. Rose Estate, 1866

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This indenture made on the 13th day of November AD one thousand eight 
hundred and sixty six, between B.B. Rose, Admr of estate of A.H. Rose, 
of Johnston County and State of North Carolina on the one part, and 
William N. Rose, Jr. of the County and State aforesaid on the other 
part witnesseth that whereas at August Term 1864 it appearing to the 
satisfaction of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Session, the personal 
estate of A.H. Rose was insufficient to pay his debts, therefore 
ordered by the said court that B.B. Rose, Admr proceed to sell the 
lands after giving due notices and satisfy said debts, and whereas the 
said B.B. Rose according to order of court did proceed on the 13th day 
of November to see the said lands after having duly advertised the same 
according to law, whereupon, Wm N. Rose Jr. became the purchaser at the 
sum of four hundred dollars: now therefore this indenture witnesseth, 
that B.B. Rose aforesaid for and in consideration of the said sum of 
four hundred dollars to him in hand paid by the said Wm N. Rose Jr. the 
receipt whereof is herby acknowledged, hath bargained, sold, aliened, 
conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents doth bargain, sell, 
aliened, conveyed, and confirmed unto him the said Wm N. Rose Jr. his 
heirs and assigns forever all the right, title, claim, interest and 
demand of him the said B.B. Rose Admr in the lands aforesaid lying and 
being in the said county of Johnston, and bounded as follows; beginning 
at a black gum in the main run of Mill Creek Wm N. Rose corner and runs 
his line No 11 W, 88 poles to a stake formerly a post oak thence his 
other line North 55 W 58 poles to a pine, thence N 122 poles to a pine 
on the No side of the Mill branch thence up the said Mill branch as it 
meanders to a small juniper Ira’s corner in the mill branch thence due 
east 116 poles to a stake in the Heron line in a small branch thence 
down the branch as it meanders 66 poles to the mill ditch thence down 
the mill ditch as it meanders 117 poles to a stake on the main run of 
Mill Creek thence up said creek as it meanders to the beginning 
containing one hundred and forty six acres more or less to have and to 
hold the same with appertenances thereto belonging to Wm N. Rose Jr. 
the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever
Signed, Sealed, in presence of
Jno. E. West                                B.B. Rose {Seal}
Mary E. Rose

[Original record at Heritage Center, Smithfield, Johnston Co, NC]

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