Wayne County, NC - John Carraway to David Jernigan Jr, 1784 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 - egpotts@gmail.com September 1, 1784 #323 p. 8 John Carraway of Wayne Co deed to David Jernigan, Jun'r Sept 1, 1784 for 135 pds specie a tract of 140 (130) acres on the south side of Nuse River on the bank of Carraways Creek adjoining David Jernigan, being part of a patent for 640 acres granted to Michael Rasher bearing date April 2, 1739. His mother, Elizabeth Carraway, is to live on the land during her widowhood or natural lifetime and to till the cleared ground and get firewood and rail timber but is not to lease or rent any of the said lands. Wit: Andrew Bass, Adam Carraway Abstracts of the Early Deeds of Wayne County, NC 1780-1793 by Joseph W. Watson Deed Book 2