Lenoir County NcArchives Court.....Tilghman, Joseph J. 1852 ************************************************ 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 June 30, 2020, 1:06 pm Source: Heritage Place, Lenoir Community College Written: 1852 Vertical File of Reuben CLARK Joseph J. TILGHMAN, Dec'd, Alexander TILGHMAN, administrator; Lenoir County, NC-July Term 1852. State of North Carolina Lenoir County Order issued July Term 1852 to me Alexander TILGHMAN, administrator of Joseph J. TILGHMAN, deceased to sell the lands and pay the debts of said deceased; in obedience to above named order to me directed and received I, Alexander TILGHMAN, Administrator of Joseph J. TILGHMAN, deceased after advertising the lands of said deceased at the Court House door in the town of Kinston and three other public places in said County more than forty days proceeded to sell at public sale at the Court House door in the town of Kinston on the 21st day of September 1852, one tract or parcel of land to Jesse VAUSE, he being the last and highest bidder. I made a report of the sale of the above named tract of land which will be more fully described in the following deed to our Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions at March Term A.D. 1853. The Court confirmed the report and ordered and decreed that I should make title to Jesse VAUSE he being the purchaser, he paying or securing the payment of the purchase money. Now this Indenture made the 23rd day of March One Thousand eight hundred and fifty three between Alexander TILGHMAN administrator of Joseph J. TILGHMAN, deceased of the County of Jones of one part and Jesse VAUSE of the county of Lenoir of the other part both of the State of North Carolina, Witnesseth that for and in Consideration of the sum of Three Hundred and ninety nine dollars and seventy five cents to me in hand paid by the said Jesse VAUSE, the receipt whereof is hereby fully acknowledged by the said Alexander TILGHMAN, administrator of Joseph J. TILGHMAN deceased have bargained and sold and by these presents do hereby bargain and sell unto Jesse VAUSE a certain piece or parcel of land lying and being in the County aforesaid on the North side of Stonington Creek. Beginning at a post oak in the old County line and runs thence with the old County line North 176 poles to a pine formerly Daniel WETHERINGTON'S corner then South 70 West 158 poles to a post oak or a lightwood stake formerly another of Daniel WETHERINGTON'S corner and now a corner of Wilson TILGHMAN these North 3/2 East 128 1/2 poles to a lightwood stump another of Wilson TILGHMAN'S corner at the head of the old ditch thence down the ditch to a maple another of Wilson TILGHMAN'S corner at the head of a small branch, thence down the Branch to again another of Wilson TILGHMAN'S corner, thence down the branch to a water oak, still down the Branch to a pine near the old cropping place another of TILGHMANS corner thence South 69 West 42 3/4 poles to a red oak another of Wilson TILGHMAN'S corner thence South 30, East 118 poles to a black Jack or Lightwood Stump thence South 46 poles to a black gum near the road on the southside of the big branch thence up the Big branch to a small black gum on the South side of the Big Branch, thence South 31 East 108 poles to a post oak near the road, then South 30 East 20 poles to a pine at the end of a lane at the head of a deep bottom, thence South 41, East 42 poles, to a red oak by the side of Stonington Creek thence to an ash on the North side of the Creek formerly Lewis WHITFIELD'S corner thence with WHITFIELD'S line to the Creek thence with the run of the Creek to a Cypress, thence with the dividing line which formerly divided the lands of Joseph TILGHMAN, Senior deceased and the lands formerly owned by Reuben CLARK, deceased known by the name of the BAKER land and sold by Reuben CLARK, deceased to Joseph TILGHMAN, Senior, deceased sold or given by Joseph TILGHMAN, Senior deceased to Joseph J. TILGHMAN, Deceased and with the courses and lines dividing the two above named tracts of land to the Beginning containing three hundred and Seventy Acres be the same more or less. To have and to hold the aforesaid land with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging unto the said Jesse VAUSE his heirs and assigns in fee simple forever free and discharged of any and all interruption or incumbrance whatsoever. And I the said Alexander TILGHMAN, administrator of Joseph J. TILGHMAN deceased as aforesaid hath covenant and by this Indenture doth with the said Jesse VAUSE his heirs and assigned to warrant and forever defend the title hereby conveyed from the lawful claim or claims of any and all person whatsoever as administrator of the said Joseph J. TILGHMAN deceased appointed by the Court to sell the lands and pay the debts of said deceased. In testimony where of I, Alexander TILGHMAN administrator of the said Joseph J. TILGHMAN, deceased doth hereunto set my hand and seal, the day and date first above written. Alexander TILGHMAN, Admr. (Seal) Signed, Sealed, & delivered in the presence of N. HUNTER Stephen WHITE State of North Carolina Lenoir County Kinston December, 3rd, 1853 There was the foregoing deed of Bargain and sale from Alexander TILGHMAN, administrator of Joseph J. TILGHMAN, deceased to Jesse VAUSE, duly acknowledged before me by the grantor agreeable to an Act of Assembly in such cased made and provided. Let it therefore be Registered in Lenoir County. Nicholas HUNTER, C.C.C. Enrolled int he Register's Office of Lenoir County the 3rd day of December A.D. 1853. Stephen WHITE, REGTR. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 6.0 Kb