JONES COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - Edmund Westbrook to Joseph Small ==================================================================== 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. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Thayer MARTTHAYER@aol.com ==================================================================== Edmund Westbrook, inherited land sold to Joseph Small Page 157 This Indenture made this day of August in the year of our Lord 1832 Between Edmund WESTBROOK of the County of Jones and the State of N Carolina of the one part and Joseph Small the same place of the other part witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of 100 dollars in hand have the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged the said Edmund WESTBROOK has bargained sold conveyed and confirmed unto the same Joseph SMALL and his heirs and assigns forever a certain tract or parcel of land. Situated lying & being in the county and state aforesaid on the East of Joshuas Creek and south sides of Ball Branch being by said Creek and Branch and the land of Elija KOONCE and N. B. WESTBROOK the whole of said tract or piece of Land containing by estimation five hundred and fifty acres be the same more or less _____ appear by the deed and rights to Samuel WESTBROOK dec'd and descended at his death to his heirs at law and the said EDMUND his son, being legally and rightfully entitled to one eighth tract of the said undivided land & tenements hereby to acknowledge to these present bargain, sell convey ___once confirm into the said Joseph SMALL and his heirs and assign all his rights title claim and Interest in the same and the said Edmund WESTBROOK doth further covenant and agree ___land with the said ___ he for himself Heirs Executor and Administrators will warrant and forever defend into the said Joseph SMALL heirs and assign the said rights of one eighth of said parcel and tenements with all _____ there unto belonging clear from the _____claim ___ ___ by through or under him or in any other manner whatsoever In witness where after he hath here unto set his hand and seal on this day and date above mentioned. Sign, sealed & delivered in the presence Edmund Westbrook seal J. A. Jarck? Kinsey State of North Carolina Council Gooding Court of Pleas and Quarter Session Sept. tenth 1833 Thus was the execution of the ____ deed duly proved in open court by the oath of J____ Kincey oath of the subscribing witness thereto and ordered to be recorded. Teste H. Bryan Seal Transcribed from a copy of the original document housed in the North Carolina Archives. Martha Thayer