COLLECTION OF CHARLES HOLLOMAN - NORTH CAROLINA ARCHIVES - PC 616 ******************************************************************* USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. File submitted by Martha Marble These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Return to the NCGenWeb Archives Table of Contents http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm#NC ****************************************************************** abstract of a deed - not the original - no indication of where original is except - Land Grant Office Book 76 p 242 - Deed - THOMAS MOORE and wife ELIZABETH of Dobbs to WILLIAM BLOUNT of the same place - SS Great Contentney Creek - granted on March 1 1743 unto JOHN SELLERS, father of said ELIZABETH MOORE - also land granted Nov 11 1743 unto JOHN SELLES brother of said ELIZABETH - WIT BENJAMIN SHEPPARD, ABRAHAM SHEPPARD, JR, JAMES HINES - to Court Dobbs County 1774 - Enrolled Office of the Register of deeds 22 Aug 1774. Other references made to Land Grant office COPY not an original - This Indenture made this third day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and sixty Eight between HARDY SUTTON and wife LAURA SUTTON of county of Lenoir --- and JEREMIAH SUTTON of same - sum of fifteen hundred and eighty seven dollars --- tract in Lenoir county NS Neuse, ES Bear Creek ADJ SARAH GRAY and others - 63 1/2 acres WIT WILLIAM SUTTON, B. F. SUTTON Enrolled 14 day Aug 1868 Book 37 p 79 and 80 Laura privately examined re enrolled 27 March 1886 - Book 9 ps 196 and 197 A mention of a Greene County Tax list found in the Raleigh Register for years 1821 - 1822 William Kilpatrick - 133 1/3 acres on Contentnea creek - this is exactly what rachel had in 1816 William Philips for Lassiter heirs - 410 acres on Contentnea Creek Simon Breeton (Bruton ?) or heirs of Kilpatrick 676 acres in 1821 ORIGINAL WIL OF GEORGE MILLER OF GREENE COUNTY I GEORGE MILLER of Greene County weak in body --- my last will and testament - first I give my soul to Almighty God --- Item - Bequeath to my eldest son WILLIAM MILLER and my youngest son THOMAS MILLER all the land I am now possessed with to be equally divided Item - I also give to my son THOMAS MILLER one bed, bedstead and furniture, one young mare two years old this coming spring, one sow and six pigs eight years old Item - unto my daughters BETSY, ELIZA, CATHERINE and SARAH each of them a bed and furniture, horses, hogs and cattle to be equally divided Item - I give unto my son THOMAS and my above named daughters all my crops that is made also that which might be made for the present year ITEM - I give and bequeath unto my son JOHN MILLER and unto my daughter ANN HARPER and to my son HENRY MILLER forty shillings each to be paid unto them by my son THOMAS and my daughters BETSY, ELIZA, CATHERING and SARAH MILLER. EXEC my sons WILLIAM and HENRY - written 4 July 1801 WIT JOHN POPE SR and B ? FARGRSONE