Lenoir County NcArchives Photo Document.....James W. Edwards To E. F. Albritton & J. W. Harper 1873
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Register of Deeds
Lenoir County, NC
BK. 4, P. 302
James W. EDWARDS of Williamsburg, SC to E. F.? ALBRITTON & J. W. HARPER of 
Lenoir Co., NC
17 Dec 1873

This Indenture made Dec. 17th, 1873 by and between James W. EDWARDS of 
Williamsburg, South Carolina party of the first part and E. F. ALBRITTON and J. 
W. HARPER of Lenoir County, North Carolina parties of the second part. 
Witnesseth, that the said James W. EDWARDS for and in consideration of the Sum 
of two thousand five hundred dollars, to him in hand paid by the said parties of 
the second part the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath give granted 
and doth by this indenture give grant bargain sell, revise, release and forever 
quit claim unto the said parties of the second part their heirs and undivided 
two thirds (2/3) interest in and to the following real estate in Lenoir County, 
North Carolina to wit that tract of land known as the WHITFIELD land adjoining 
the lands of E. F.? ALBRITTON and others and devised to Lewis WHITFIELD (now 
dead) by his grandfather in the fourteenth item of his will in these words “I 
give devised and bequeath to my lands in the fork of Neuse River and Stonington 
Creek which land I hold by deed from W. LOVICK, Reuben CLARK & James DAUGHTETY 
lying in Neuse River and on both sides of Stonington Creek, also the lands I 
hold by deed from Jesse JACKSON including the CLARK place and the Walter JACKSON 
plantation and Mill? Seat “Said land lying now hold by the said J. W. EDWARDS by 
Sheriff deed for Cicero WHITIFIELD’S interest (one third) dated Feb. 19th, 1869 
and by deeds from Hazard WHITFIELD and wife for Hazard WHITFIELD’S interest (one 
third) with a quit claim deed from B. F. WHITFIELD & wife & Hazard WHITIFIELD & 
wife for said Hazard’s interest dated March 2nd 1869, containing Sixteen hundred 
acres more or less. To have and to hold to them the said E. F. ALBRITTON & J. W. 
HARPER and their heirs share and share alike in fee simple.
In testimony whereof the said J. W. EDWARDS hath hereunto se this hand & seal in 
the year and day first above written.
J. W. EDWARDS (Seal)
Witness
J. F. HARTSFIELD

Lenoir County, In the Probate Court
The execution of the written and forging Deed from James W. EDWARDS to E. F. 
ALBRITTON & J. W. HARPER was the 17th day of December 1873 proved before the 
undesigned, Probate Judge of said County by the Oath and Examination of J. F. 
HARSTFIELD the subscribing witness. Therefore, let said Deed with this 
certificate be registered.
Witness my hand and official seal.
W. W. HUNTER
Probate Judge

the 23rd of December, 1873, pages 199 & 200 in Book No. 41.
James K. DAVIS
Register of Deeds

Re-enrolled in the office of the Register of Deeds for Lenoir County in the 27th 
day of Feby. 1883.
B. S. TAYLOR
Register of Deeds


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