Pitt County NcArchives Deed.....Charles C.W. Cannon to Wilks Brooks, 1826
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Deed Book DD
Page 253

Grantor: Charles C.W. CANNON
Grantee: Wilks BROOKS
Enslaved person: Vilet, about 9 years old
Date: 14 Apr 1826

State of North Carolina}
Pitt County}

Know all men by these presents that I, Charles C.W. Cannon hath bargained and sold unto 
Wilks Brooks of the County of Pitt, a certain negro girl by the name of Vilet, about nine 
years of age, for the consideration of the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars, to 
me in hand paid, the receipt and payment I do hereby acknowledge, have bargained and sold 
the aforeseaid Vilet to the said Wilks Brooks, him and his heirs forever, and I for myself 
do covenant to and with said Brooks, to warrant and forever defend the right of the said 
negro to the said Brooks to be free from all claims whatsoever. In witness whereof I do 
here unto put my hand and seal this the 14th April 1826.

Charles C.W. Cannon [seal mark]

Test:
William Clark

May Term 1826. Then the above Bill of Sale from Charles C.W. Cannon to Wilks Brooks was 
exhibited into open court and proved in due form of law by the oath of William Clark, a 
witness thereto, ordered to be registered.

Attest. Jas. Sheppard, Clerk

Source: FamilySearch.com: "North Carolina, Pitt County, record of deeds, 1762-1946."