Jones County NcArchives Deed.....Simmons, Abraham (deceased) - Simmons, Heirs Et Al (Lot Divisions) October 28, 1858
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Written: October 28, 1858

Originals in the possession of Mary Vause Bridgewater
Deed torn at the bottom right hand corner. This deed is important in that it appears
to prove a sliver of land east of Southwest Creek along the Neuse Road was in 1858
in Jones County. Today it is in Lenoir County. It is not known if Cabin Branch and
Indian Cabin Branch were the same waterway.

State of North Carolina, Jones County

To the worshipful, The Justices of Court of Please and Quarter Sessions Fall Term
1858.

We the undersigned Commissioners appointed by the Court of Pleas and Quarter 
Sessions of said county having been duly sworn proceeded on the twenty eighth day of

October to divide and make partition between and among Simeon Simmons, Mary Ann 
Simmons, John W. Simmons, Elizabeth S. Simmons, Lemuel L. (Sic – should be J.) 
Simmons & Sarah H. Simmons, tenants in common of the lands decended to them as 
children and heirs at law of Abraham Simmons Dec.  Whereupon we have made and do 
hereby make the following appropriations among the respective claimants in severalty
that is to say the lot No 1. Is assigned and appropriated to Elizabeth S. Waters in
Severalty bounded as follows – torn – Beginning at a water – torn – Cabin
Branch and – torn – 100 poles to a pine – torn – pole to a state at the –
torn – there with the Railroad – torn to a stake the S 68 W 75 pole to a holly
at the run of Cabin Branch then up said branch to the beginning.

Lot No 2 is assigned and appropriated to John W. Simmons in severalty bounded as 
follows:  Beginning at a stake at the Railroad and runs N 3 E 62 pole to a stake
then S 89 
W 200 pole to the run of Cabin then up Cabin Branch to a holly at the Corner of Lot
No 1 
then with the same to the beginning.

Lot No 3 is assigned and appropriated to Simeon Simmons in severalty bounded as 
follows: Beginning at a stake and runs N 3 E 50 pole then S 77 W 200 pole to the
public 
road, then with said road to the foot of the SouthWest Creek Bridge then up the
Creek to 
Cabin Branch then up Cabin Branch to 3rd corner of Lot No 2.  Then with the line of
the 
same to the beginning.

Lot No 4 is assigned and appropriated to Mary A. Simmons in Severalty Bounded as 
follows:  Beginning at a stake in the back line and runs with said N 35 E 52 pole to
White Oak then N 75 W 234 pole to a corner a water oak at the run of South West
Creek then up the said Creek to the bridge then with the road to the line of lot No
3. Then with the same to the beginning.

Lot No 5 is assigned and appropriated to Sarah H. Simmons in severalty bounded as
follows. Beginning at a White Oak and runs N 35 E 52 pole a red oak then N 73 W 250
pole to a hickory on the run of South West Creek then up the said Creek to a water
oak corner of lot No 4, then with the line of the same to the beginning.

Lot No 6 is assigned and appropriated to Lemuel J. Simmons and severalty bounded as
follows. Beginning at a red oak and runs – torn – to a Black gum – torn pole
to an ash then – torn – to the head of the – torn – N 66 W with the ditch
– torn – the run of the Creek than up said Creek to a hickory a corner of lot No
5 then with the line of the same to the beginning.

We further charge the more valuable lots with such sums of money respectfully to be
paid to those of inferior value respectively as will make an equitable division that
is to say:  the Lot No  appropriated to Elizabeth S. Waters is to pay to Lot No 4
appropriated to Mary A. Simmons the sum of twenty five dollars; the lot No 2
appropriated to John W. Simmons is to pay to lot No. 4 appropriated to Mary A.
Simmons the sum of twenty five dollars all of which is respectfully submitted under
our hands and seals this the 28th day of October Anno Dominos, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty eight.

W. H. Padrick
W. C. Cox
Alexander Tilghman
B. L. Bryan
Nathan McDaniel, JP

Recorded in Book No 5 Folio 422-3

Additional Comments:
Originally submitted in February 2002

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