ORANGE COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - Power of Attorney for William and Mary Walker
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May 29, 1855
Book 34, Page 564, 565

Know all men by these presents the we William Walker and Mary Walker
his wife of the County of Clinton and State of Missouri do hereby
Constitute and appoint James Walker of the County of Orange and State
of North Carolina our true and lawful agent and Attorney infact to
Sell and Convey any and all of our right title claim and interest in and
to any real estate in which we may be interested by virtue of our
heirship to Elizabeth Walker deceased, daughter of William Walker
deceased late of Orange County North Carolina and as good and valid
title make thereto as we could do were we personally present and
acting for ourselves, and our said Attorney is further authorized
and empowered to ask demand, sue for recover and acquittances give
for any and all monies debts credits slaves and other property that
may be coming to us from the said estate of Elizabeth Walker deceased
of the said County of Orange and State of North Carolina and all and
every act of our said Attorney done in and about the Selling and
Conveying our interest in the said real estate and the collecting
of the monies, debts Credits, Slaves and other property due to and
Coming to us from the said estate of Elizabeth Walker shall be
forever binding upon us as if done in our own proper persons. In
testimony whereof we the Said William Walker (Brother of the said
Elizabeth Walker deceased) and Mary Walker his wife have hereunto
set our hands and seals the 29th day of May A.D. One thousand eight
hundred and fifty five.
                                              William Walker (seal)
                                              Mary Walker (seal)

State of Missouri   )
County of Clinton   )  Set
I Edward M Samuel Commissioner of Deeds for the State of North
Carolina, duly appointed and Commissioned by the Governor thereof
for the State of Missouri to take the acknowledgement of deeds
and other Writings to be used and recorded in the Said State of
North Carolina, do Certify that this instrument of writing from
William Walker and Mary Walker his wife was this day produced to
me in the Town of Plattsburg Clinton County Missouri by the said
William Walker and Mary Walker his wife and then and there, before
me severally acknowledged by them to be their act and deed for the
purposes therein mentioned; She the Said Mary Walker in an
examination made by me seperately and apart from her husband
declared that She executed the said instrument of writing freely,
and voluntarily and relinquished her dower in the real estate
therein mentioned, without the compulsion or undue influence of
her said husband (and Consents that this instrument Shall be put
upon record in the State of North Carolina where the premises lay.
   Given under my hand and seal of office this 29th day of May A.D.
1855
                                                Edward M Samuel
     Seal                                       Commissioner

Orange County Court August Term 1855
     The foregoing power of attorney was exhibitied in open court
for probate and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that
the Certificate of Edward M Samuel Commissioner of Deeds and other
instruments of writing is in due form it is therefore considered
ordered and adjudged by the Court that the said power of Attorney
together with the Certificates thereto attached be registered
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