Newhanover County NcArchives Deed.....Mary Kirkwood, Joshua Potts - Robert Mitchell, J. G. Wright 1806
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Written: 1806

N C Archives
New Hanover County, NC Real Estate Conveyances
1805-1813, Vol. N-O
Microfilm C.070.40006
Book N, pg 98

Indenture dated 13 Nov 1806 of Joshua Potts and Mary Kirkwood to Joshua Gainey
Wright and Robert Mitchell

Mary Kirkwood is seized and possessed of the following tracts of land and lots 
to wit:

One undivided sixth part of land in New Hanover County on the west side of Long
Creek containing six hundred and forty acres, parts of the estate of Thomas 
Cunningham uncle of said Mary.

One undivided third part of fifty acres of land lying on the said creek joining 
the lands above mentioned being parts of said land given by the said Thomas 
Cunningham to Robert Kirkwood who died and who was brother of the said Mary.

All parcels are in the town of Wilmington on the south side of Dock Street between
Trent Street and the river adjacent to James Mitchell, Thomas Jennings and Joshua 
G. Wright.

Also one half of a lot in Smithville in Brunswick County by the Number 19 adjacent
Potts Street, Bay Street and Moore Street.

Whereas the said Mary Kirkwood is also possessed of the following Negro slaves, a
wench called Delia and a boy her own called John, a wench called Evelina daughter 
of said Delia and a girl called Peggy.

Whereas a marriage is intended shortly to be had and solemnized between the said
Joshua Potts and the said Mary Kirkwood.
	
Whereas it is agreed between the said Mary and Joshua that if the marriage shall
take place the said tenements, tracts, parcels of land, lots of ground, hereditaments 
and premises and also the said Negro slaves shall not be subject to the debts or 
encumbrances of the said Joshua Potts, nor to the disposition of the said Joshua 
except as herein after mentioned but that the same be settled to the use of the said 
Mary and Joshua during their joint lives and to the use of the survivor during his 
or her life and after the death of the survivor to the right heirs of the said Mary.
Wit: John MacKellar
Registered 14 Apr 1807


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