Wayne County NcArchives Deed.....Wm. Cobb, John West & - Carraway, William 1845 ************************************************ 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: Guy Potts http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004214 February 25, 2015, 6:17 pm Written: 1845 Wayne County, NC Register of Deeds Deed Book 20, pg 147 State of North Carolina } Wayne County } This indenture made on the 25th day of July 1845 between William Carraway of the State and County above on the one part and J.W.S. West and Wm. D. Cobb trustees of the Wayne Lycium Academy of the other part witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar to him in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby fully acknowledged he the said Carraway hath given granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth give grant bargain and sell unto the said West and Cobb trustees as aforesaid and their successors in office a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the State and County aforesaid on the north side of the Marsh Branch and publick road leading from Waynesboro to Duplin County and bounded as follows: beginning at a black jack and runs W 10 S 18 pole to the road leading from Waynesboro to Duplin then S 20 E 14 poles with the road to a black jack then E 10 N 18 poles to a stump then to the beginning 1 1/2 acres more or less to have & to hold together with all and singular the woods, ways, priviledges and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining also the priviledge of getting wood on the adjoining lands for the use of the school to them the said J.W.S. West and W.D. Cobb trustees of the above Academy as aforesaid and their successors in office free and discharged of any and all incumbrances whatsoever in trust for the use and benefit of the said Academy for the space of twenty five years. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25th day of January 1845. Signed and sealed and delivered Wm Carraway {Seal} in presence of J.J. Baker Alby Whitley Wayne County Feby Term 1846 Then was the above deed of sale from Wm Carraway to Jno W S West & Wm D Cobb trustees duly proved in open court by the oath of Alby Whitley a subscribing witness thereto & ordered to be registered. Jno. A. Green Clk File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/deeds/carraway162ndd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb