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DEED

 

WILLIAM D. JONES

TO

CHRISTOPHER C. CHRISTMAS

 

THIS INDENTURE, made and entered into this 27th day of

December A.D., One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-seven, between William D. Jones, of the County of Warren and State of North Carolina, of the first part, and Christopher C. Christmas, a freedman, formerly a slave of Lewis Y. Christmas, deceased, of said County, of the second part, Witnesseth:

WHEREAS, the said Lewis Y. Christmas, in his Will,

bequeathed a legacy of Ten Thousand Dollars to certain of his slaves, in the said Will named, and in the proportions therein stated, which legacy was charged on the residue of his estate real and personal, which was devised and bequeathed by his said Will to the said William D. Jones; and

WHEREAS, a suit was lately brought in the Court of Equity of

Warren County aforesaid in the name of the said legatees against Joseph S. Jones, Executor of Lewis Y. Christmas, and others, for the recovery of the said legacy, which at the last Term of said Court was transferred to the Supreme Court, in which said suit the said Christopher C. Christmas is one of the parties; and

WHEREAS, it has been agreed between the parties to this deed

that the said William D. Jones was to convey to the said Christopher C. Christmas, in fee simple, a certain tract or parcel of land hereinafter described in full satisfaction and discharge of his share of the said legacy, and that the said Christopher C. Christmas, in consideration thereof should release all claim to any part of the said legacy to the said Joseph S. Jones, Executor as aforesaid, and the said William D. Jones; and

WHEREAS, the said Christopher C. Christmas has this day

executed a release according to the said agreement.

 

NOW THIS INDENTURE, WITNESSETH, that the said William D. Jones in consideration of the premises, and the further consideration of the sum of One Dollar to him paid by the said Christopher C. Christmas, before the execution of this deed, (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged) hath bargained, sold and conveyed, and doth hereby bargain, sell and convey unto the said Christopher C. Christmas and his heirs and assigns forever the said tract of land situated in Warren County aforesaid, on the road leading from Warrenton to Louisburg, containing about ninety-four acres, and bounded as follows:

BEGINNING at a small cedar on the South side of said road and running South 24 East 120 Poles to a bunch of Gums on the South side of the Long branch; thence, down said branch to where the old road crosses; then leaving the branch by said old road No rth 1 1/2 East 50 Poles, then North 10 West

20 Poles 20 Links to Ransom's old corner white oak (now Watson's); thence, North 85 1/4 East 82 Poles 20 Links to a stone; thence, North 69 Poles 5 Links to a Turkey oak bush marked for a corner on the Louisburg Road; thence, along said road Westwardly to the BEGINNING; and adjoining the lands of the said William D.Jones and others, and

THE SAID WILLIAM D. JONES doth hereby bind himself, his

heirs, executors and administrators to warrant and defend the title to the said tract of land unto the said Christopher C. Christmas, his heirs and assigns forever.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the said William D. Jones hath

hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal the day and year first above written.

Wm. D. Jones (seal)

Witness:

C. W. Spruill

North Carolina Office of the Clerk of

: Pleas and Quarter Sessions Warren County December 28th A.D. 1867

The execution of the above and foregoing deed by Wm. D.

Jones to Christopher C. Christmas is this day acknowledged before me, William A. White, Clerk of the said Court, by the said William D. Jones. Therefore, let the said deed and this certificate be registered.

William A. White, Clerk

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