Lenoir County, NC - Deeds File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Martha Mewborne Marble DEEDS. Originals in the possession of Mary Vause Bridgewater Deed torn at the bottom right hand corner. This deed is important in that it appears to prove a sliver of land east of Southwest Creek along the Neuse Road was in 1858 in Jones County. Today it is in Lenoir County. It is not known if Cabin Branch and Indian Cabin Branch were the same waterway. State of North Carolina, Jones County To the worshipful, The Justices of Court of Please and Quarter Sessions Fall Term 1858. We the undersigned Commissioners appointed by the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of said county having been duly sworn proceeded on the twenty eighth day of October to divide and make partition between and among Simeon Simmons, Mary Ann Simmons, John W. Simmons, Elizabeth S. Simmons, Lemuel L. (Sic – should be J.) Simmons & Sarah H. Simmons, tenants in common of the lands decended to them as children and heirs at law of Abraham Simmons Dec. Whereupon we have made and do hereby make the following appropriations among the respective claimants in severalty that is to say the lot No 1. Is assigned and appropriated to Elizabeth S. Waters in Severalty bounded as follows – torn – Beginning at a water – torn – Cabin Branch and – torn – 100 poles to a pine – torn – pole to a state at the – torn – there with the Railroad – torn to a stake the S 68 W 75 pole to a holly at the run of Cabin Branch then up said branch to the beginning. Lot No 2 is assigned and appropriated to John W. Simmons in severalty bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake at the Railroad and runs N 3 E 62 pole to a stake then S 89 W 200 pole to the run of Cabin then up Cabin Branch to a holly at the Corner of Lot No 1 then with the same to the beginning. Lot No 3 is assigned and appropriated to Simeon Simmons in severalty bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake and runs N 3 E 50 pole then S 77 W 200 pole to the public road, then with said road to the foot of the SouthWest Creek Bridge then up the Creek to Cabin Branch then up Cabin Branch to 3rd corner of Lot No 2. Then with the line of the same to the beginning. Lot No 4 is assigned and appropriated to Mary A. Simmons in Severalty Bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake in the back line and runs with said N 35 E 52 pole to White Oak then N 75 W 234 pole to a corner a water oak at the run of South West Creek then up the said Creek to the bridge then with the road to the line of lot No 3. Then with the same to the beginning. Lot No 5 is assigned and appropriated to Sarah H. Simmons in severalty bounded as follows. Beginning at a White Oak and runs N 35 E 52 pole a red oak then N 73 W 250 pole to a hickory on the run of South West Creek then up the said Creek to a water oak corner of lot No 4, then with the line of the same to the beginning. Lot No 6 is assigned and appropriated to Lemuel J. Simmons and severalty bounded as follows. Beginning at a red oak and runs – torn – to a Black gum – torn pole to an ash then – torn – to the head of the – torn – N 66 W with the ditch – torn – the run of the Creek than up said Creek to a hickory a corner of lot No 5 then with the line of the same to the beginning. We further charge the more valuable lots with such sums of money respectfully to be paid to those of inferior value respectively as will make an equitable division that is to say: the Lot No appropriated to Elizabeth S. Waters is to pay to Lot No 4 appropriated to Mary A. Simmons the sum of twenty five dollars; the lot No 2 appropriated to John W. Simmons is to pay to lot No. 4 appropriated to Mary A. Simmons the sum of twenty five dollars all of which is respectfully submitted under our hands and seals this the 28th day of October Anno Dominos, one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight. W. H. Padrick W. C. Cox Alexander Tilghman B. L. Bryan Nathan McDaniel, JP Recorded in Book No 5 Folio 422-3 END OF DOCUMENT North Carolina, Lenoir County In re Title Land of Elizabeth Vause I, John W. Simmons, being duly sworn says that Lemuel J. Simmons was a brother of said affiant. That said Lemuel J. Simmons died on or about the ___ of ___ 1880, leaving three children namely Clyde W. Simmons, Julia L. Simmons and Elizabeth Simmons now the wife of Jessie Frank Vause. That said children were the sole heirs at law of their father the said Lemuel J. Simmons. That affiant was and is well acquainted with the lands of the said Lemuel J. Simmons, situate in Sand Hill Township, Lenoir County and state of North Carolina adjoining the lands of Alex Tilghman, Ben Sutton and others. That the said Elizabeth Vause is now the sole owner, and in possession of said land, having purchased from her said brother and sister their undivided interest in said land. That said Lemuel J. Simmons inherited the said land from his father and continued in the possession of said land, claiming and using the same as his own to his death in or about the year 1880. That the lands of Abraham Simmons father of affiant the said Lemuel J. Simmons was divided between the heirs of the said Abraham Simmons on the 28th day of October 1858 (see Division of the lands of Abraham Simmons, as recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Jones County, State of North Carolina.) That said Abraham Simmons was in possession of said lands for many years prior and up to his death claiming and using same as his own, and that after the death of the said Abraham Simmons, the heirs of said Abraham was and continued in the possession of said land up to the date of the aforesaid Division and after the said Division the said Lemuel J. Simmons was and continued in the possession of said land up to the time of his death and that after the death of the said Lemuel J. Simmons the said heirs of the said Lemuel J. Simmons continued in the possession of said lands as tenants in common up to the time the said Clyde W. Simmons and the said Julia L. Simmons conveyed their undivided interest in the said lands to the said Elizabeth Vause, and that the said Elizabeth Vause and those under whom she claims have been in the continuous adverse possession of the said lands for over fifty years, claiming an using the same as their own. That on the said day of the division of lands of the said Abraham Simmons the said Lemuel J. Simmons was in possession of all the lands mentioned and described in the said deeds from Clyde W. Simmons and Julia L. Simmons and remained in the sole possession of the same, claiming and using the same as his own up to the time of his death on about the --- day of --- 1880, and that since his death the said land has been in the sole possession of his heirs, and now in the sole possession of his daughter Elizabeth Vause since she purchased from her said brother and sister their undivided interest in said land. ***the next sentence handwritten **** That Emma Simmons widow of the said Lemuel J. Simmons did about one year after the death of her husband Lemuel J Simmons. Then ?? Clyde W. Simmons and Julia L. Simmons was both - next two words not readable. Signed John W. (x) Simmons Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of June 1911 H C. V. 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