Wayne County NcArchives Deed.....Jones, Smithy A. - Whitfield, Bryan 1867 ************************************************ 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: Sloan S. Mason http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00022.html#0005225 January 6, 2022, 6:32 pm Written: 1867 Transcribed by Sloan Mason slomas7@comcast.net Register of Deeds Lenoir County, NC Bk. 4, p. 329 Bryan WHITFIELD, administrator of Daniel HINES, dec’d of Wayne Co., NC sells to Smithy A. JONES of Lenoir Co., NC 12 Jan 1867 State of North Carolina Lenoir County Whereas at March Term of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County of Lenoir A. D. 1867. I, Bryan WHITFIELD administrator of Daniel HINES, Deceased did file 2 petitions in said Court for a Sale of the land of said deceased hereinafter described for the purpose of making assets & c. and whereas the said Court granted an order of sale as prayed for and whereas I the said Bryan WHITFIELD administrator aforesaid did make a sale of the said lands and did likewise report the same to court, at Sept. Term 1867 and whereas Said Court confirmed & the same, and made the necessary orders and degrees touching the same and authorized me to make Letters to the purchaser, Therefor this Indenture made and executed this the 12 day of January 1869 by and between, Bryan WHITFIELD administrator of Daniel HINES, deceased of the County of Wayne and State of North Carolina of the first part and Smithy A. JONES of the County of Lenoir and same State, Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the Sum of three hundred and five dollars to me in hand paid, have given granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth give grant, bargain, sell and convey to the said Smithy A. JONES a certain tract or parcel of land belonging to Daniel HINES, adjoining the lands of J. M. KORNEGAY, W. R. E. GARTEN?, Alex BARWICK, J. M. SPENCE & others, Bound by courses and distances as follows to wit: Beginning at a Hickory by a branch then running to a pine, W. NUNN’S corner thence S 21 W 139 poles to a pine stump thence S 70 E 140 poles to a Stake, thence N 20 E 55 1/2 poles to a Stake thence N 20 E 55 1/2 poles to a Stake thence S 61 E75 1/4 poles to a Stake at BARWICK’S corner thence S 25 W 85 poles to a Stake NUNN’S Corner thence N 66 W 69 1/2 poles to a Stump thence S 61 E 75 1/4 poles to a Stake at BARWICK’S corner thence S 25 W 85 poles to a Stake NUNN’S corner thence N 66 W 69 1/2 poles to a Stump thence W 67 1/4 poles to a dead Water Oak then S W 59 3/4 poles to a stake thence to a Stake in Benton Branch and so on with plat to beginning containing 475 1/2 acres. To have and to hold to her the said Smithy A. JONES her her heirs and assigns in fee simple and to the better securing the title hereby annexed. I the said Bryan WHITFIELD administrator of the said Daniel HINES, doth free myself and my heirs agree to warrant the title hereby conveyed to the said Smithy A. JONES & her heirs and assigns so far forth as my duties of administrator requires and the powers, confirmed by law and the decree of said court require and no further. In witness whereof I the said Bryan WHITFIELD administrator of the said Daniel HINES do it hereunto set my hand and seal the day and date herein before written. Bryan WHITFIELD, (Seal) Admin’r. of Daniel HINES, Dec’d. Signed Sealed, Stamped and Delivered in the presence of W. F. NUNN B. T. HINES Lenoir County, In the Probate Court The execution of the foregoing and within deed from Bryan WHITFIELD to Smithy A. JONES was this 2nd day of Sept. 1869 proved before the undersigned Judge of Probate for said County by the Oath & examination of W. F. NUNN a subscribing witness thereto, Therefore let the said Deed with this Certificate be registered. 5/ State Tax duly paid. R. F. GREEN Probate Judge Enrolled in the Register’s Office of Lenoir County the 4th of Nov. 1869, on pages 139-140 in Book No. 38. A. J. WADEWORTH Register of Deeds Re-enrolled in the office of the Register of Deeds for Lenoir County on the 9th day of March 1883. B. S. TAYLOR Register of Deeds File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/deeds/whitfiel617ndd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb