Jones County NcArchives Deed.....Rhodes, James - Rhodes, Jonas 1805 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sloan Mason http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003873 August 19, 2018, 8:52 pm Written: 1805 Transcribed by Sloan Mason Register of Deeds Jones County, NC James RHODES to Jonas JONES-slaves BEST, & DICK Bk. 3, p. 71 30 Oct 1805 Know all men by these presents that I James RHODES in the State of North Carolina in Jones County for and in Consideration of the Sum of two hundred and ninety pounds current money of this State to me in hand paid I, do hereby acknowledged and by the presents doth firmly sell & deliver unto Jonas JONES in the same state & County aforesaid to him his heirs and assigns forever one negro woman about twenty seven years of age named BEST? & her increase from this date and also one negro boy by the name of DICK about one year of age which said negroes I do warrant & forever defend from any person or persons laying any right or claim thereto. In Witness whereof It he said James RHODES have hereunto set my hand & seal this 30 Day of Oct. 1805. Witness presents: Henry (his X mark) BROWN Jacob RHODES Signed: James RHODES (Seal) State of North Carolina Jones County Court Nov. Term 1805 Then was the foregoing bill sale from James RHODES to Jonas JONES proves in Open Court by the Oath of Henry BROWN one of the subscribing witnesses and ordered to be Registered. Test: Wm. ORME, CC. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/jones/deeds/rhodes859gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb