Wayne County NcArchives Deed.....Hooks, Ann W. - Fitsgerald, Thomas & Caroline 1854 ************************************************ 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 20, 2015, 2:23 am Written: 1854 August 23, 1854 Thomas & Caroline E. Fitsgerald to Ann W. Hooks Lots # not given Wayne County Deed Book 23, p 472-473 This indenture made and entered into this 23d day of August AD 1854 by and between Thomas Fitsgerald and Caroline E. his wife of the county of Penola and State of Mississippi of the one part and Ann W. Hooks of the county of Wayne and State of North Carolina of Thomas Fitsgerald and Caroline E. his wife for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to them in hand paid by the said Ann W. Hooks or secured to be paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged they the said Thos. Fitsgerald and Caroline E. his wife have bargained sold conveyed and confirmed unto the said Ann W. Hooks her heirs and assigns forever all their right title and interest in and to the houses and lots in the Village of Everettsville whereon the said Ann W. Hooks now lives which was willed to the said Caroline E. Fitsgerald by her father the late Curtis Hooks after the death of said Ann W. Hooks. To have and to hold the said lots and improvements to her the said Ann W. Hooks her heirs and assigns forever and the said Thomas Fitsgerald and wife Caroline E. will by these presents warrant and forever defend the right and title to the same to her the said Ann W. Hooks and her heirs forever. In testimony whereof the said Thomas Fitsgerald and Caroline E. his wife have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and date above written. Thomas Fitsgerald {Seal} C. E. Fitsgerald {Seal} Signed sealed and delivered in presence of R. Edmundson Wayne County Aug. term 1854 Then was the above deed of sale from Thomas Fitsgerald and wife Caroline E. to Ann W. Hooks duly acknowledged in open court and at the same time the said Caroline E. Fitsgerald a feme covert and wife of said Thos. Fitsgerald she being then and there in open court was examined privately separately and apart from her said husband by Wm. Lane Esqr a member of the court now sitting (he having been appointed for that purpose) touching and concerning the due execution thereof by her the said Caroline E. Fitsgerald did confess and acknowledge that she executed the same freely voluntarily and of her own accord without the fear persuasion or compulsion of her said husband and that she doth now freely assent thereto. Ordered that said deed and this examination be registered. Benj. Aycock Clk File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/deeds/fitsgera843dd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb