Wayne County, NC - Deeds - Samuel Perkins to Gray Garris - 1861

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Guy Potts <gpotts1@mindspring.com>

Copy of original was sent to me by Susan Neal

This indenture made this 13th day of November AD 1861 between Samuel 
Perkins of the County of Wayne & State of North Carolina of the one part
& Gray C Garris of the same state & county of the other part, witnesseth
that I the said Samuel Perkins for & in consideration of the sum of 
eleven hundred dollars to me in hand paid, the receipt whereof I do
hereby acknowledge myself satisfied have granted & sold, & by these
presents do grant bargain & sell unto the said Gray C Garris his heirs
& assign forever, one certain piece of parcel of land, lying in the 
County aforesaid, on the South side of Nahunta Swamp, & bounded as 
follows viz:

Beginning at a Hickory the dividing corner between Gray C Garris & James
Holland, then runs E 74 N 160 poles to a stake in a meadow, then with said 
G C Garris line to a pine at the edge of the Mill Pond, the high water
mark, then up the meander of the high water mark to the run of ___bury
Branch, then up the run of said branch as it meanders to a bay, the 
dividing corner between the said Samuel Perkins, & James Holland, then
NE 68 poles to the beginning, containing one hundred & two acres, more
or less. I the said Samuel Perkins for myself, my heirs & assigns, do
hereby warrant & forever defend & secure a good & lawful title of said
land unto Gray C Garris his heirs & assigns. In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & seal, the day & year above written.

Signed sealed & delivered                   Samuel Perkins  (Seal)
in presence of
Henry H Davis
Nathan R Perkins

                                  Wayne County Feby 6th 1862

The due execution of the foregoing deed from Saml Perkins to Gray C Garris
was this day proved before me by Nathan R Perkins one of the subscribing 
witnesses. Let it be registered.
                                  S.H. Denmark Clerk

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