JONES COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - Edmund Westbrook to Joseph Small
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Edmund Westbrook, inherited land sold to Joseph Small
Page 157
This Indenture made this day of August in the year of our Lord 1832 Between
Edmund WESTBROOK of the County of Jones and the State of N Carolina of the
one part and Joseph Small the same place of the other part witnesseth that
for and in consideration of the sum of 100 dollars in hand have the Receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged the said Edmund WESTBROOK has bargained sold
conveyed and confirmed unto the same Joseph SMALL and his heirs and assigns
forever a certain tract or parcel of land. Situated lying & being in the
county and state aforesaid on the East of Joshuas Creek and south sides of
Ball Branch being by said Creek and Branch and the land of Elija KOONCE and
N. B. WESTBROOK the whole of said tract or piece of Land containing by
estimation five hundred and fifty acres be the same more or less _____ appear
by the deed and rights to Samuel WESTBROOK dec'd and descended at his death
to his heirs at law and the said EDMUND his son, being legally and rightfully
entitled to one eighth tract of the said undivided land & tenements hereby to
acknowledge to these present bargain, sell convey ___once confirm into the
said Joseph SMALL
and his heirs and assign all his rights title claim and Interest in the same
and the said Edmund WESTBROOK doth further covenant and agree ___land with
the said ___ he for himself Heirs Executor and Administrators will warrant
and forever defend into the said Joseph SMALL heirs and assign the said
rights of one eighth of said parcel and tenements with all _____ there unto
belonging clear from the _____claim ___ ___ by through or under him or in any
other manner whatsoever In witness where after he hath here unto set his hand
and seal on this day and date above mentioned.
Sign, sealed & delivered in the presence Edmund Westbrook seal
J. A. Jarck? Kinsey State of North Carolina
Council Gooding Court of Pleas and Quarter Session
Sept. tenth 1833
Thus was the execution of the ____ deed duly proved in open court by the oath
of J____ Kincey oath of the subscribing witness thereto and ordered to be
recorded.
Teste H. Bryan Seal
Transcribed from a copy of the original document housed in the North
Carolina Archives.
Martha Thayer