Lenoir County NcArchives Deed.....Dunn, John P. - Carraway, Snoad B. 1853 ************************************************ 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, 4:02 pm Written: 1853 Transcribed by Sloan Mason slomas7@comcast.net Register of Deeds Lenoir County, NC Bk. 7, p. 502 Snoad B. CARAWAY to John P. DUNN of Lenoir County, NC 12 OCT 1853 This Indenture made this twentieth day of October, One thousand eight hundred fifty three, between Snoad B. CARRAWAY of the first part and John P. DUNN of the second part, both of the County of Lenoir & State of North Carolina. Witnesseth, that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of Four Thousand five hundred Dollars lawful money of the United State of America to him duly paid before the delivery hereof hat bargained and sold and by these presents doth bargain and sell and convey to the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever all the certain certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Contentnea Neck in the County of Lenoir and State aforesaid being apart of the BLACKLEDGE land and apart of the land granted yr. patent to Thomas BRANDON bounded and described as follows to wit: Beginning at a red oak stump on the East side of the Kinston rad at the foot of the long hill near Mrs. Reuben CLARK. Thomas Branton's corner, thence along said BRANDON'S patent line S 19 W 63 poles to a red oak stump another of T. BRANDON'S Corners, thence N 70 W 144 pole to a pine stump, then N 104 pole, then N 27 1/2 W 19 1/2 pole then East 11 1/2 pole to the Snow Hill road at the mouth of the land near the LAFAYETTE house, thence Eastwardly along said lane (being also the public road) to the Kinston Road, thence South 25 1/2 W 20 pole, then South 61 W 5 pole along the Kinston road to a stake at a ditch and bridge across said road at Cowherd Branch, then South 25 East to Neuse River, thence up the various courses of said River to the mouth of Stonyton Creek, thence North through the River low ground to the edge of the high land, thence along the edge of the high land all its various courses to the mouth of a small branch the line of the heirs of Reubin CLARK, Dec'd, thence up the said branch N 36 3/4 W 6 poles then N 6 3/4 W 8 poles, thence N, E 4 pole to a path that crosses the branch then N 27 1/2 W to the end of an old ditch, thence along said ditch 27 1/2 W 77 pole to the West end of said ditch, thence N 22 W to a red oak stump the beginning containing three hundred and twenty five acres more or less. Also another tract, beginning at the main road in Alligator Branch, thence up the various courses of the run of said branch to the fork, thence up the western branch of said Alligator to a black gum on the North side of said branch Lewis WHITFIELD, Dec'd corner, thence South 9 W 6 pole, then S 41 E 195 pole to the main road near a post oak marked as a pointer, thence along the road N 62 1/2 E to the beginning at Alligator Branch, containing one hundred & twenty five acres be the same more or less as per deed from Lewis WHITIFIELD to S. B. CARRAWAY, - July 7, 1841, together with all and singular the tenements hereditaments, and appurtenances and all the right, title and interest of the said party of the first part therein. And the said party of the first part doth covenant and agree with the said party of the second part, that at the time of the delivery hereof the said party of the first part is the lawful owner of the premises granted and seized thereof in fee simple absolute, and that he will warrant and defend the above granted premises in the quiet & peaceable possession of the party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the date and year first above written. Snoad B. CARRAWAY Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of J. A. MAY State of North Carolina Lenoir County Kinston, April 16, 1855 Then was the foregoing deed of bargain and sale from S. B. CARAWAY to John P. DUNN exhibited before me and the execution thereof duly acknowledged by the grantor agreeable to an act of assembly in such cases made and proved. Let it therefore be registered in Lenoir County. N. HUNTER, CLK Enrolled in the Register's office of Lenoir County, the 23rd day of April 1855. S. WHITE, Rgt. Re-Enrolled in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Lenoi rCounty on the 15th day of Dec. 1885. Geo. L. HODGES Register of Deeds This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb