LENOIR COUNTY, NC - Deed - Jacob & Mary Lankston to son Bryant, 1873. ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Sloan Spence Mason June 1999 ========================================================================== Copied by Martha Mewborn Marble and transcribed by Sloan S. Mason with permission of the Heritage Place at Lenoir Community College, Kinston, N.C. - Vertical File LANGSTON #12285-4. Lent for copying by John LANGSTON. We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. Deed of Gift: Jacob & Mary LANKSTON to son Bryant LANGSTON 27 Nov. 1873-Lenoir County, N.C. State of North Carolina, Lenoir County. Know all men by these presents that we Jacob LANGSTON, and wife for and in consideration of the natural love, and affection which we do bear unto our son Bryant LANGSTON do give, grant, and convey unto our son Bryant LANGSTON, a certain tract or parcel of land situated, and lying in Lenoir County, on the North side of Neuse river, and bounded as follows, beginning at the meeting house-yard, and runs N24 W109 poles to a branch thence up the various courses of said branch, and ditch to the head of said ditch thence S67 W20 poles to the road thence down the road to the beginning containing thirty two acres. The right and title of which we Jacob LANGSTON, and wife do warrant, and defend unto the said Bryant LANGSTON his heirs, and assignes forever, with the exception of a life estate which I, Jacob LANGSTON holds during my natural life in witness where off we have here unto set our names, and seals this the 27th day of Nov. in the year of our Lord 1873. Witness: M. HARVEY Jacob (X) LANKSTON M. STANLY Mary LANGSTON Be it Remembered, That on the 29th day of December, 1873, before the undersigned, Judge of Probate for said County, personally came Jacob LANKSTON and Mary LANGSTON, his wife, the persons, described in and who signed, the foregoing Deed, and acknowledged the due execution thereof by them as their act and deed.-And thereupon the said Mary LANGSTON being by the undersigned privately examined separate and apart from her said husband, touching her free consent in the execution thereof, doth declare, on such her examination, that she had executed the same 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. Therefore let the said Deed, with this Certificate, be Registered. Witness my hand and official seal, Wm. W.H. HUNTER Probate Judge. Enrolled in the office of the Register of Deeds for Lenoir County on the 24th day of December 1873. Book No. 41, page 215. James K. DAVIS Register of Deeds. End of Document.