Pitt County NcArchives Deed.....Thomas H. Blount to Lewis B. Pugh, 1847
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Deed Book MM
Page 493

Grantor: Thomas H. BLOUNT
Grantee: Lewis B. PUGH
Enslaved person(s): Jinny and her children Milly, Winny, Minerva, Amanda, Emeline and 
Dennis, and boy Exum
Date: 18 Dec 1847

Whereas George S. Blount has released to me as the natural guardian of my children Elizabeth 
Polly Ann and John Gray Blount all his interest in the estate of Jacob Blount, deceased, I hereby 
agree (the Court of Equity for Pitt County confirming the same) that they will convey to Lewis B. 
Pugh the following lands and negroes, hereinafter mentioned for the trust and purposes herein 
stated, and for no other (viz) the Blount Hall tract of land lately the property of Jacob Blount, 
deceased–also negro woman Jinny and her children Milly, Winny, Minerva, Amanda, Emeline 
and Dennis, and boy Exum–that is to say the said Lewis B. Pugh “will permit the said George S. 
Blount to have and enjoy the profits arriving from said land and negroes during his life” and after 
his death his wife, is she survives him to have dower in the lands as if he held the same in fee 
simple, and to share equally with the children of said Blount the negroes, share and share alike, 
and after her death all her interest in the lands and negroes to vest in the surviving children of, if 
dead leaving children, then in them and their children, so that all the children should take per 
capita. Witness my hand and seal this 18th December 1847.

Thos. H. Blount [his mark]

North Carolina}
Pitt County}
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions.  February 1851.
The within paper writing purporting to be a deed from Thomas H. Blount was produced in court 
and duly proved by the oath of William B. Rodman who swore that he was well acquainted with 
the handwriting of the said Thomas H. Blount, having frequently seen him write, and that he 
believed the signature to said paper to be in the true and proper handwriting of said Blount; let 
the said deed and this probate be registered.

H. Sheppard. Clerk.