Lenoir County NcArchives Deed.....Hill, John D. - Hill Et Al, W. R. 1866 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Hazel Yarbrough hhyarbrough@embarqmail.com October 13, 2010, 10:15 am Written: 1866 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 1866 Deed from W.R. Hill and others to John D. Hill This indenture made this 11th day of August AD in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and Sixty Six by and between W. R. Hill Drewry A Hill Hardy Hill Martha M. Sutton wife of Josiah Sutton Elizabeth Jones & Easter Hill parties of the first part and John D. Hill party of the Second part, all of the County of Lenoir and State of North Carolina Witnesseth that the Said William R. Hill D.A. Hill Hardy Hill Martha M. Sutton Josiah Sutton Elizabeth Jones and Easter Hill for and in consideration of the Sum of one hundred dollars to each of them in hand paid by the Said John D. Hill the receipt & payment whereof is hereby acknowledged bargained and Sold & doth by these presents bargain & sell to the Said John D Hill his heirs or assigns all the rights title interest claims or demand Which they may or can have either in law or Equity as tenants in common of the real estate of Mary Hill wife of Drewry Hill Sr: Which Said real estate was vested in her the Said Mary Hill by her father the late Ezekiel Creech and interested to her legal descendants. To have and to hold to him the Said John D. Hill his heirs or assigns in fee simple absolutely forever, and the Said William R. Hill D.A. Hill Hardy Hill Martha M Sutton Josiah Sutton Elizabeth Jones & Easter Hill doth hereby Concent and agree to & with the Said John D. Hill that they warrant & defend to him & his heirs or assigns all the right title interest Claim or demand which they now prossess or which right accrue to them or each of them in any future contingency that might arise to testimony whereof we whose names are above mentioned as parties of the first part doth all hereunto set our hands & Seals the day & date above written Witnesses William R. Hill (Seal ) M.B. Creech Drury A. Hill (Seal) W.T. Hill Hardy Hill (Seal) Martha M Sutton (Seal) Elizabeth Jones (Seal) Easther Hill (Seal) Josiah Sutton (Seal) Enrolled in the Registers Office of Lenoir County Oct. 14th, 1867 Wm. W. N. Hunter, Reg’r North Carolina Lenoir County Court, September Term, 1867 Then was the foregoing deed exhibited in open Court and the execution thereof as to Wm. R. Hill, Drury A. Hill, Hardy Hill, Elizabeth Jones and Easther Hill, is proved by the oath of M.B.Creech, the subscribing witness thereto, and Josiah Sutton and Martha M. Sutton his wife appeared in open Court, and personally acknowledged the due execution by them of the said deed, and thereupon J.A. Hartsfleld, a member of the Court, is appointed to take the private examination of the said Martha M. Sutton, and the said J.A. Hartsfield after privately examined the said Martha M. Sutton separate and apart from her said husband touching her free consent in the execution of the said deed, reported to the Court that she acknowledged before him, when so examined, that she had executed said deed freely of her own will and accord and without any force, fear, or undue influence of her said husband or any other person and did still voluntarily assent thereto, all of which was ordered to be recorded. It was further ordered that the deed itself, and the above proceedings to be registered. Nick Hunter, CCC W. R. Hill and others To John D. Hill Deed Enrolled on pages 364 & 365 in book No. 36 Wm. W. N. Hunter, Reg’r Filed for Registration at 11 o’clock A.M. Oct. 14, 1912 and Enrolled in the office of Register of Deeds for Lenoir County This l6th day of Oct. 1912 Book No. 44 Page 463 J.H. Barwick Register of Deeds File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/deeds/hilletal568dd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb