Lenoir County NcArchives Deed.....Church, Wheat Swamp - Creech, Miller B. 1907
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Written: 1907

From the J. Paul Hill Collection in the possession of J.P. Hill, Jr., Lenoir 
County

Transcribed by Hazel Ruth Hill Yarbrough from a Xerox copy of the original.

1857 Deed – Miller B. Creech to Wheat Swamp Church Building Committee

    Know all men by these presents that I, Miller B. Creech, of the County of 
Lenoir, State of North Carolina, for and in consideration of the sum of Seven 
Dollars and fifty cents, to me in hand paid by Parrott M. Hardy, Walter 
Kennedy, Simon E. Hodges, Drewry Hill, Jr. of the aforesaid County and State, 
and William White of Greene County, being a building  committee, the receipt 
and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged, have bargained, sold, and by these 
presents do hereby bargain and sell to the aforesaid Committee, and to their 
successors forever a piece or parcel of land being in Lenoir County and lying 
in the fork of the Roads nearly opposite Wheat Swamp Meeting House, for the 
purpose of building a Christian Church upon it, for the use of the Disciples, 
beginning 1 ˝ poles above the well on Hull Road and run So. 36 Wst. 17 poles 
to the other road to a post oak, thence down the road to the fork, thence up 
Hull Road to the beginning, containing by estimation three fourths of an acre, 
be the same more or less.  And I the aforesaid Miller B. Creech, for myself 
and heirs and assigns forever warrant, and defend, the right, title and 
interest which I have in the above premises, unto the aforesaid Committee, and 
their successors for ever, provided that no part or parcel of the aforesaid 
piece of land shall ever be used for any other purpose but that herein named, 
in such case, this contract shall be void and of no effect.  Otherwise it 
shall remain in full force and virtue.  In testimony whereof, I have set my 
hand and seal on this the 16th of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and fifty seven.

Signed, sealed and delivered in
The presence of                   Miller B. Creech   (Seal)
James A. Hodges
M. Patterson


North Carolina, Lenoir County –
    The execution of the foregoing instrument was this day acknowledged before 
me by Miller B. Creech, the grantor, for the purpose therein expressed.
    Witness my hand and seal
    This 13th day of December, 1907.

                                 J. W. Brothers   (Seal)
                                 Justice of the Peace



State of North Carolina ---Lenoir County
    The foregoing certificate, with private seal attached, of J.W. Brothers, a 
Justice of Peace of Lenoir County, is adjudged to be correct. Let the 
instrument, with the certificate be registered.
           This 16th day of Dec. 1907.
                              Plato Collins
                              Clerk Superior Court


        COPY
Wheat Swamp Church Deed

Filed for Registration 9 o’clock
AM, Dec. 16, 1907, and enrolled in the office of 
Register of Deeds for Lenoir County.  This 
20th day of Dec. 1907.
Book  No. 37, Page 476.

    John F. Barwick
    Register of Deeds


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