Wayne County, NC - Deeds - George W. Collier to Newman Potts - 1860

Register of Deeds Office
Wayne County
Goldsboro, NC

This Indenture made & entered into on this the 17th day of November A.D. 
1860 between George W. Collier of the County of Wayne & State of North 
Carolina of the one part & Newman Potts of the same County & State of the 
other part.

Witnesseth that the said George W. Collier, for & in consideration of the 
sum of seventeen hundred & eighty three dollars & twenty five cents 
($1783.25) to him in hand paid by the said Newman Potts at the time of 
executing these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath 
granted, bargained, sold, conveyed, aliened & confirmed, and by these 
presents doth grant, bargain, sell, convey, alien & confirm unto the said
Newman Potts, his heirs & assigns, a certain tract or parcel of land, 
situated, lying & being in the County & State aforesaid on the south side
of Neuse River & on the east side of Wilmington & Weldon Rail Road, 
adjoining the land of the said George W. Collier, Nathan Daniel, Nick Smith,
James A. Fields & others, & bounded as follows, 

Beginning at a bridge across a ditch, said Collier and Daniels corner & 
runs with said Daniels line N 63 E 217 poles to a pine, said Daniels 
corner, then with said Daniels line N 17 ½ E 162 poles to a bog on the 
Poplar Branch, another of said Daniel corners, near the mouth of the school
house spring branch, then up said school house spring branch, as it 
meanders to a pine on the Newbern Road, said Colliers corner, then south 
with said road as it runs to a pine at the corner of Nick Smiths fence, 
said Smiths corner, then with said Smiths line W 83 poles to a stake and 
other of said Smiths corners, then S 2 W 150 poles to a poplar on the 
Marsh Branch, Jas. A. Fields corner, then with said Fields line N 74 
W 78 poles to a pine, then N 89 W 18 poles to a dead pine, another of said
Fields corners, then with said Fields line S 58 W 141 ½ poles to a stake 
another of said Fields corners, thence to the beginning - containing four 
hundred & twenty & a half acres, be the same more or less.

To have & to hold the aforesaid land & premises, together with all & 
singular the privileges & appurtenances therein belonging, to him the said 
Newman Potts, his heirs, executors, administrators & assigns forever. And 
the said G.W. Collier does hereby forever warrant & defend the right-still 
of the said lands against the lawful claim or claims of any & all persons 
whatsoever. 

In testimony whereof, I the said G.W. Collier hath hereunto set my hand 
& affixed my seal, the day & date above written. 

                                    G.W. Collier  {Seal}

Signed in the presence of us 

J.E. Whitfield
William J. Hall


Wayne County Oct 3rd 1862

The due execution of the foregoing deed was this day proved before me 
by the oath of Jno. E. Whitfield the subscribing witness. Let it be 
registered.

                                    L.H. Denmark  Clerk

(Tax 57 pd by N Potts)

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