Pitt County NcArchives Deed.....John Jenkins to Charles J. Rountree, 1828
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Deed Book EE
Page 237

Grantor: John JENKINS, Administrator for Estate of Benjamin F. JENKINS (JINKINS, 
JINKINSON)
Grantee: Charles J. ROUNTREE
Enslaved person(s): Sid (about 22 years old) and her children Mary (no age given) and Serena 
Jane (about 3 months old); Hollon; Charles
Date: 3 Mar 1828

State of North Carolina}
Pitt County}
Whereas Benjamin F. Jinkinson [sic] died on the eleventh day of November in the year of our 
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and being intestate to a considerable 
estate which descended to him by the death of his sister, Mary McKenna, and also his father, 
Charles Jinkins, Esquire, deceased lately of the county aforesaid, whereupon administration 
was granted to John Jinkins, and in order that an equal distribution should be made between the 
lawful representatives of the said Benjamin F. Jinkins, deceased, at February Term 1828, the 
Worshipful Court of Plea and Quarter Sessions held for the county aforesaid, did pass an order 
directing the said John Jinkins, Administrator of the said F. Jinkins, deceased, to sell the 
following negro slaves (to wit) Negro woman Sid and her children Mary and Serena Jane, and 
negro girl Hollon & negro boy Charles, and upon the petition of John Jinkinson [sic], William 
McKenna, Charles C. Jinkins & Jonathan W. L. Jinkins, in order therefore that acts of said 
petitioners should receive their proportionable part of said negroes, I, the said John Jinkins, 
Administrator of the said Benjamin F. Jinkins, deceased, did duly advertise the same and on the 
twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, agreeable to law 
did offer for sale negro woman Sid and her child Serena Jane. Charles J. Rountree offered on 
the day of sale this three hundred and fifty-eight dollars for said woman and child, he being the 
last and highest bidder, thereon the said woman and child was struck off to him at the aforesaid 
sum of three hundred and fifty-eight. Now know all men by these presents that I, the said John 
Jinkins, Administrator of the said Benjamin F. Jinkins, deceased, for and in consideration of the 
three hundred and fifty-eight dollars to me in hand paid by the said Charles J. Rountree, his 
receipt I do hereby acknowledge and by these presents have bargains, sold and delivered unto 
the said Charles J. Rountree, his heirs and assigns the before mentioned negro woman Sid and 
her child Serena Jane, Sid aged about twenty-two years, her child aged about three months, 
and I, the aforesaid John Jinkins, as well for myself as for the before mentioned heirs, will 
warrant and forever defend the said negroes and their increase to the said Charles J. Rountree, 
his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claim or claims of any person or persons 
whatsoever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this the 3rd 
day of March 1828.

John Jinkins [seal mark]

Witness
Archibald Parker

May Session 1828
Then the above deed of sale from John Jinkins to Charles J. Rountree for negro woman & child 
was exhibited into open court and acknowledged in due form of law by John Jinkins to be his act 
and deed, ordered to be registered.

Attest.
James Sheppard, Clerk