Lenoir County NcArchives History....Promissory Note, 1791

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Joe P. Sutton, PhD, sutton@edtesting.com, December 16, 2018.

Clellan Sutton Collection, Bucklesberry Community, La Grange, NC.

BENJAMIN SUTTON, SR. TO JOHN HERRING, 1791

Know all Men by these presents that I Benjamin 
Sutton of the County of Dobbs & State of No. Carolina 
am held & firmly bound to John Herring in the Final 
Sum of One Thousand Pounds Current Money of 
the said State to be paid to the Said John Herring 
his Heirs Executors and Administrators or Assigns 
for the True payment thereof I bind myself my 
Heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by these 
presents Sealed with my Seal and dated this 
24th day of August 1791.

The Condition of the above Obligation is 
Such That Whereas the said Benjamin Sutton hath 
made an Entry in the Land office for Three Hundred 
and fifty Acres Land in Bucklesberry on the East Side 
Bear Creek in Dobbs County Now If a Title or 
Grant is Obtain’d for Said Land by Virtue of Said 
Entry And the said Benjamin Sutton doth within 
Two Months if as it is Obtained make and assign 
unto the said John Herring or his Heirs a good & Lawful 
Deed of Sale for his The Sd. Sutons Right by Virtue 
of Sd. Grant for all the Lands the said Grants 
may cover lying above the Lands formerly Surveyed 
held by John Sutton now the property of Benj. Sutton 
which Deed is to Include the Land formerly held by 
[John] Herring and now at the time of Sd. Entry Claimed by 
John Herring and Acknowledge the same Then the assigned 
Obligation to the Vow and of non Affect Otherwise to 
be & Remain in full force Power & Virture.

Signed Sealed & Acknowledged
In presence of                           his
?                  John Herring  Benjamin X Sutton {Seal}
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END OF DOCUMENT

Comments:

Paragraph two, which states that Benjamin Sutton inherited 
land from John Sutton, is tacit proof that John was the 
father of Benjamin.

Roger E. Kammerer (kammerer@hotmail.com), in a March 11, 2015 
email, speculated the basis for this promissory note:

“Benjamin Sutton owed money to Herring.... and he was going 
to get a grant of land and was going to sign it over to 
Herring when it came through... land surveyed by John Sutton 
(I guess he owned it) and passed to Benjamin Sutton....ALSO 
included to help pay the debt was land that was formerly owned 
by John Herring and now owned by Benjamin Sutton…."