Lenoir County, NC – Deeds – William Lovick to J.P. Dunn, 1828

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Lovit Hines Collection, 1737-1914

State of North Carolina }
          Lenoir County }

To Blount Coleman and William B. Kilpatrick Esquires Greeting:

Whereas John P. Dunn hath produced a deed of conveyance made to him 
from William Lovick and Elizabeth his wife, a certain tract or parcel 
of land lying and being in the County of Lenoir in the State of North 
Carolina, and procured the same to be proved by Walter Dunn in the 
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid, and it 
being represented to our said Court that Elizabeth the wife of the said 
William Lovick is [blank] so that she cannot travel to the Court of our 
said County, to be privily examined as to her free consent in executing 
the said conveyance – Therefore, we command you or any two of you, that 
at such certain day and place as you shall think fit, you go to the 
said Elizabeth if she cannot conveniently come to you, and privily and 
apart from her husband, examine her the said Elizabeth whether she 
executed the said conveyance freely and of her own accord, without fear 
or compulsion of the said William Lovick her husband. And the 
examination being distinctly and plainly written on the said deed, or 
on some paper annexed thereto -–and when you shall have so taken the 
said examination, you are to send the same closed up, under the seals 
of you or any two of you, together with this writ, unto our said Court 
of Pleas and Quarter Sessions to be held for the County of Lenoir at 
the Court-House in Kinston on the first Monday of October next.
WITNESS, D. Caswell Clerk of our said Court, at office the 9th day of 
July 1828
                                      D. Caswell  C.C.C.



State of North Carolina }
          Lenoir County }          July Term 1828

Then was the forgoing deed of Sale duly proved in open Court by the 
oath of Walter Dunn who swore that he saw William Lovick one of the 
Grantors sign seal and deliver the same as his act and deed and was by 
the Court ordered to be Registered. At the same time Elizabeth Lovick 
the other Grantor being not in Court therefore it is ordered that 
Commission issue to Blount Coleman and William B. Kilpatrick Esquire to 
take the private examination of the said Elizabeth as touching her free 
will and consent in executing the said deed of Sale to John P. Dunn, 
and return their proceedings to next Court.
                                                 D. Caswell  C.C.C.

Enrolled in the Registrers office of Lenoir County 31st October 1828

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