Person County NcArchives Deed..... Solomon Cates to Thomas Evans & Laurance Hargis, 1823 ************************************************ 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: Donnie Pickard dmallie@aol.com October 14, 2006, 7:06 pm Written: November 7, 1823 Recorded: 1823 Person Co., NC Book F pages 328-329 This Indenture made & indented this 7th day of Nov. in the Year of Lord one thousand eight hundred & Twenty three between Solomon Cates of the County of Person & state of North Carolina of the one part & Thos P. Evans & Laurance Vanhook Hargis of the same County & State aforesaid witnesseth that the said Solomon Cates for & in consideration of sum of one hundred & sixty dollars to him in hand paid by the said Evans & Hargis before the signing & sealing of these presents the Act which he the said Cates doth hereby acknowledge ___ gives, granted bargained & sold & do by these present give grant bargain & __ unto the aforesaid Evans & Hargis their heirs & assigns forever all & singular my right title & interest in a __ quarter Section of land in the Territory of Illinois No. 7664. Being the North East quarter of section 6 of Township 13 north in Range 4 East in the Tract appropriated by an Act of Congress granting land to the late Army(?) of the United States and since the 6th of May one thousand, eight hundred & twelve for Military Bounties in the Territory of the said Illinois & I the said Solomon Cates having obtained a patent for the before mentioned Quarter Section of land containing one hundred & sixty acres with all & singular the right & appurtenances thereunto belonging in any manner appertaining & all the rights title interest & claim of all persons whatever to have or to hold the Quarter Section of land as herein described unto the said T. Evans & Hargis their heirs & assigned forever & I the said Solomon Cates for myself my heirs & assigns will Warrant & ever defend the said title interest & claim unto the said Evans & Hargis. Whereof I the said Solomon Cates have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal as date first herein written signed in, the presence of Solomon Cates {seal} Harris Wilkerson (Jurat) Rufus Cates & State of N. Carolina } Person County} Nov. Term 1823 The Execution of this deed was duly forever in open Court by the oath of Harris Wilkerson & on motion ordered to be registered. Test Jesse Dickins Additional Comments: Researching Thomas Evans, born 1797 in NC, but don't think this is my Thomas. My Thomas Evans was in Henderson Co., TN by 1850. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/person/deeds/cates140gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb