Northampton County, NC - Deeds - Jesse Jordan - 1794

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Deed for the Concord Methodist Episcopalian Church of Northampton 
County, North Carolina

Surnames: Smith, Jordan, Luke, Harrison, Finner, Fennell, Dupree, Clark,
Asbury, Perry, Haynes, Dancy

SMITH to JORDAN & OTHERS -This indenture made this 6th day of November in 
the year of our Lord 1794 between Joel Smith of Northampton County in the 
state of North Carolina of the one part and Jesse Jordan, John Luke, 
Charles Harrison, Robert Finner, Batt Jordan, ISHAM FENNELL, and Thomas 
Dupree, part in the said County, part in Greensville in Virginia of the 
other part witnesseth that in consideration of Five shillings current money 
of North Carolina by the said Jesse Jordan, John Luke, Charles Harrison, 
Robert Finner, Batt Jordan, ISHAM FENNELL and Thomas Dupree to the said 
Joel Smith truly paid be-fore the sealing and delivering hereof the receipt 
whereof the said Joel Smith doth hereby acknowledge and for divers other 
causes and considerations him thereunto moving the said Joel Smith hath 
granted bargained and sold and by those present doth bargain and sell unto 
the said Jesse Jordan, John Luke, Charles Harrison, Robert Finner, Batt 
Jordan, Isham Fennell and Thomas Dupree, their heirs and assigns forever, 
all that lot or parcell of ground whereon the church erected for publick 
worship now stands in the County and state aforesaid. Beginning at a corner
white oak on James Walter Clark's line, thence west to a corner red oak, 
thence north to a corner Spanish oak, thence east to a corner pine on the 
said Clark line, thence on the said line to the beginning, containing one 
acre of land more or less together with all the ways and priviledges to the 
said premisis apportaining and all the profits thereof with all the right 
title in trust in Law & Equity to have and to hold the said lot or parcell 
of ground to the said Jesse Jordan, John Luke, Charles Harrison, Robert 
Finner, Batt Jordan, Isham Fennell and Thomas Dupree, their heirs and assigns
forever, nevertheless upon special trust and confidence and to the intent 
that they and the survivors of them and the trustees for the time being do 
and shall permit Francis Asbury Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
America and such other persons as he shall from time appoint and at all 
times while he retains the office of a Bishop in the said Methodist 
Episcopal Church and no other person to have and enjoy the free use and 
benefit of the said Premisis the said Francis Asbury and such other persons 
as he shall appoint may therein preach and espound the Holy Scriptures and 
after his decease or when he shall cease to exercise the office of Bishop in
the said Methodist Episcopal Church upon further trust and confidence and to
the intent that the said Jesse Jordan, John Luke, Charles Harrison, Robert 
Finner, Batt Jordan, ISHAM FENNELL, and Thomas Dupree or the major part of 
their trustees or of the trustees for the time being shall from time to time
and at all times forever permit such persons as shall be appointed at the 
yearly conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and no others to have 
and to enjoy the said for the purposes aforesaid and upon further trust and 
confidence that as often as one of the trustees for the time being shall 
cease to be members of the said Methodist Episcopal Church or shall remove 
to so great a distance as to be unable to discharge the duties of a trustee 
the rest of the said trustees or the trustees for the time being as soon as 
conveniently may be shall and may choose another trustee or trustees in 
order to keep up the number of seven trustees forever.

In witness whereof the said Joel Smith hath hereunto set his hand and seal
day and year aforesaid. Signed, sealed & delivered in the presents of

William Finner
John Perry Northampton County, Sept 1795

This deed was proven by The oath of John Perry

Ordered to be registered
Witness E. Haynes, C.C.
(signed) Joel Smith
James Dancy-Reg. 10 Dec 1795

Book 10, page 172-173
Northampton Deeds
Jackson, N.C.

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