Lenoir County, NC - Watson to Hardee, 1841 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John A. B. Watson to Pinckney Hardee - 1841 Found in Supreme Court Case #6946 INDENTURE 19 Feb 1841 - Indenture - John A. B. Watson to Pinckney Hardee - owing to circumstances beyond the control of Watson he is now unable to discharge his just debts and is assigning his property for payment of same. For $1 and other considerations he is conveying the said property to Hardee - one tract where I now reside - 300 acres - courses will appear to a deed from Danny Daugherty heir at law of Daniel Daugherty to the said John A. B. Watson - also two tracts adj the lands of George Moy, Jesse Jackson and others being the same which was devised to me by the will of my father Joseph Watson - another tract adj the lands of John Patrick, Jacob Daugherty the courses will appear in a deed from James Daugherty Jr - 424 acres - also one negro man named Reubin and one negro girl named Sylvia, 6 head of hogs, household and kitchen furniture & fifty barrels of corn, 200 pounds of pork, farming instruments, & carts, wagons - to hold by the said P. Hardee as soon as requested by creditor and on 20 days notice shall place all at public sale - after deduction of his reasonable charges the said Hardee shall discharge the following debts: one note payable to J. C. Washington guard to the minor heirs of John Cobb for thirty seven dollars dated today with interest from 3 Jan 1838; one note payable to J. C. Washington guard to the minor heirs of John Cobb dated 7 Jan 1841 for four hundred dollars; one note payable to the same dated 5 Jan 1841 & payable at twelve months for one?? Hundred and seventy dollars and fifty cents; one note payable to J. C. Washington & James Bryan adm of John Washington dec payable 24 Dec 1838 for forty one dollars; one note payable to J. C. Washington for the sum of four hundred and sixty dollars and eighty one cents dated the 18th last; one note payable to J. C. Washington for fifty one dollars and seventy five cents dated the 18th Mar; one note payable to J. C. Washington & Co for thirty seven dollars and sixty cents dated 18th July; one note to which I am security to Daniel Broadway and Stephen Lyon ?? belonging to J. & J. C. Washington and payable to J. C. Washington 7 Oct 1837 for the sum of twenty five dollars; three other notes payable to H. F. Bond & Co one for one hundred and ninety dollars and ninity two cents dated today with interest from date 1 day of Jan last - one dated today for twenty eight dollars and twenty six cents with interest from the 1st of Jan last - and the other for sixty five dollars and twenty cents dated the 7 of July 1840 with interest from the 1 of Jan 1840; one note payable to Metts and Bond and dated today for two hundred and twenty dollars; one note payable to the same and dated 2 July 1838 for forty six dollars and twenty seven cents; one note payable to Kinion T. West & dated today with interest from the date for the sum of three hundred dollars; one judgement in favor of Phillips and Oxley stayed ?? by James Kilpatrick for about one hundred dollars; one note payable to Francis B. McKinney for about eighty dollars for hire of negro Abner; two notes payable to John Davis one of which I am security for Lewis Williams for about twenty dollars - the other one for which I am security for Michel Grant for about twenty dollars; one note payable to John Rouse for about eighty dollars date not recollected; one note payable to Isaac B. Cox Administrator of Wilie Kilptrick for about sixty dollars date not recollected; one judgement in favor of Metts and Wooten stayed by James Daughety for about forty dollars; one judgement in favour of Thomas Abbott for about twenty dollars stayed by James Daugherty; the amount which I am now owing the following persons by account - Hardee & West - Stephen White - Davis & Kornegay - J Davis & Co - W. H. Haywood - Lovicka Croom - on account about fifteen dollars - Anna King, one account for thirty two dollars and seventy cents; one judgement in favour of John T. Luni ?? adm of Luke Russel for about fifty five dollars stayed by Kinion T. West; one note payable to the Merchangs Bank New Bern NC for the sum of four hundred dollars with J. C. Washington & H. F. Bond security; one note in favour of Lewis O. Bryan one hundred dollars dated as Jan 1840 with Kinion T. West security together with the interest - secured on the afore mentioned debts and the surplus if any remains after fulfilled the trust will pay over to John A. B. Watson in a reasonable time by Hardee Signed J. A. B. Watson and P. Hardee WIT R. W. King & J. C. Patrick To Court Feb 20 1841 on oath of R. W. King L. C. Desmond, CC Enrolled 20 Feb 1841 G. T. Lovick Regr Copy made 4 Sept 1851 John F. Wooten CME ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Martha Mewborn Marble ___________________________________________________________________