Wayne County, NC – Deeds – Fields, Potts to Giles Kornegay, 1891 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wayne County Deed Book 65, pg 125 – Deed for 15 acres State of North Carolina } Wayne County } This Deed, Made this 10th day of November, 1891, by J.A. Fields & Wife Sarah Fields and Newman Potts and wife Mary A. Potts, parties of the first part of Wayne County, State of North Carolina, to Giles Kornegay, party of the second part of Wayne County, State of North Carolina: Witnesseth, That said Parties of the first part, for and in consideration of ten Dollars to them paid the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have bargained and sold revised released & quit claimed and by these presents do bargain, sell and revise release & quit claim and convey to said party of the second part and his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns all cleir right title & interest in a tract or parcel of land in Wayne County, State of North Carolina on Sleepy Creek adjoining the lands of Wright Casey, Sr. Robert Peel and others, bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at a stake in said Wright Casey’s line & runs thence along his line S. 32 W. 64 poles to a stake formerly a hickory stump & stake: then S. 52 E. 28 poles to a stake in said Peel’s line; then N. 44 ˝ E. 80 poles to a stake; then crossing said Sleepy Creek and running N. 78 W. to the beginning containing fifteen acres more or less being the land conveyed by mortgage deed of said parties of the first part to said Giles Kornegay of date Nov. 25 1882, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of said County in Book No. 50, page 112. To Have and to Hold the aforesaid tract of land and all priviledges and appurtenances thereto belonging to the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, to their only use and behoof. In Testimony Whereof, The said parties of the first part have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year above written. J.A. Fields {Seal} Sarah x Fields {Seal} Newman Potts {Seal} Mary Potts {Seal} North Carolina – Wayne County I, W.B. Bowden J.P., do hereby certify that J.A. Fields & Wife Sarah Fields and Newman Potts & Mary Potts his wife, personally appeared before me this day, and acknowledged the due execution of the annexed deed, and the said Sarah Fields & Mary Potts being by me privately examined, separate and apart form their said husbands, touching their voluntary execution of the same, doth state that they signed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion of their said husbands, or any other person, and that they doth still voluntarily assent thereto. Let it be registered. Witness my hand and seal, this 12th day of Nov’b, 1891 W.B. Bowden J.P. {Seal} ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Guy Potts ___________________________________________________________________