Lovick Hines Collection Lenoir NC probate, land, court records. vol . 1737-1790 ************************************************************************ File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Day ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. Return to the NCGenWeb Archives Table of Contents http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm#NC ************************************************************************** Transcribed from microfilm of the Lovit Hines Collection Lenoir NC probate, land, court records. vol . 1737-1790 -Film no. 0019239 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family History Center. Transcribed by Patty Day http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1759/patty.html *************************************************************************** July 9 1828 writ for privy examination of Elizabeth Lovick 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, of 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 Court that Elizabeth the wife of the said William Lovick is 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 of 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 Signed D. Caswell *************************************************************************** July 1828 probate of Deed from William and Elizabeth Lovick State of North Carolina, July Term 1828 Lenoir County 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 deliever the same as his ___ and deed, and was by the court ordered to be regestered.-At the same time Elizabeth Lovick the other Grantor being not in Court therefore it is ordered that ____ ____ Blount Coleman and William B. Kilpatrick Esquire to take the private examination of the said Elizabeth as _____ her free will and consent in executing the said deedof sale to John P Dunn, and return their proceedings to next Court. signed D. Caswell Enrolled in the Registars Office of Lenoir County 31 October 1828