Orange County NcArchives Deed.....Terry, James T. - Bumpass, Martha August 13, 1857 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jacqueline Wilkerson jgwilkerson@embarqmail.com September 12, 2009, 7:03 pm Written: August 13, 1857 Recorded: August 13, 1857 Orange County, North Carolina Deed Book 35, Page 286, 287 Martha Bumpass to James T. Terry Know all men by these presents that I Martha Bumpass of Orange County North Carolina for and in consideration of the natural love and affection that I have to my relation James T. Terry and for his better [?] and for the further consideration of One Dollar to me in hand paid by the said James T Terry the receipt of which I do hereby acknowledge I have given granted bargained & Sold and by these presents I do hereby give grant bargain & Sell unto the said James T Terry a certain Negro Man now of the age of thirty years called & known by the name of Edmund. To have and to hold the said negro Edmund from and after the day of my death & not before to him the said James T terry for and during the term of his natural life and after his death to his wife Susanna for and dureing the term of her natural life if she should survive him and after the death of the [?} to the heirs them having Sophia Gates excepted) of the body of the said Susanna their heirs and assigns forever In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 13th day of August AD 1857 The words there living on ) Martha Bumpass (seal) the 20th line interlined before ) [?]ing the words Sophia Gates ) excepted to come in after the ) words then living interlined ) before [?] ) Signed sealed & delivered ) in presence of ) A [?] Bumpass ) H T Gates ) North Carolina The Execution of the foregoing & within Deed of Gift was duly acknowledged before me George Laws Clerk of the Court of the Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Orange County by Martha Bumpass the Subscriber thereto let it be Registered together with this certificate this 13th August AD 1857 Geo Laws CCC File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/orange/deeds/bumpass519gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb