Jones County NcArchives Court.....Brown, Howel 1787
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1787

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1786 - 1787
1786 
Volume 24, Pages 783 - 884

CHAPTER LXXII.

An Act to Vest the Title of a Piece or Parcel of Land Lying in Jones County, 
in Howel Brown and His Heirs, in Fee Simple.

Whereas it appears to the satisfaction of this General Assembly that Howel 
Brown, of Jones county, on the eighth day of December, in the year one 
thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, did purchase of Durham Leigh, of 
Duplin county, a certain piece or parcel of land lying in Jones county on the 
west side of Joshua's creek, containing two hundred acres, butted and bounded 
as follows, to wit, beginning at a gum in the edge of said creek near Elisha 
Blackshear's line, and runs with his line north seventy-two degrees west one 
hundred and fifty-four poles to his corner white oak, then north eighty 
degrees west ten poles to Benjamin Fortham's corner dogwood, then with his 
line north sixty-three degrees west forty-four poles, then north four degrees 
east one hundred and sixty poles, then north eighty-nine degrees east seventy 
poles to a pine in Joseph Kinsey's line, then with his line south thirty-six 
degrees east eighty-eight poles to his corner pine, then with another of his 
lines north sixty-one degrees east fifty poles to his corner pine on the south 
side of said creek, then with the various courses of the same to the 
beginning; and did in good faith pay the purchase money thereof unto the said 
Durham Leigh, who since the said purchase hath withdrawn himself from this and 
the United States, and attached himself to the enemies of the same; and his 
estate by law hath been confiscated, and hath made no assurance to the said 
Howel Brown to vest the said land in him and his heirs in fee simple:

I. 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 the said 
Howel Brown be, and is hereby invested with absolute right in fee simple of 
and to the before recited tract or parcel of land containing two hundred acres 
aforesaid, in as full and ample manner as he would have been, if the said 
Durham Leigh had executed to him a good and sufficient title in law for the 
aforesaid tract or parcel of land; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. 
(Passed Jan. 6, 1787.)


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