Absalom Boyet To Obediah Wade Deed 1 October 1787
(Transcribed by Joan S Dunn)

Deed Book 1 A Page 545, 546, & 547

Absalom Boyet To Obediah Wade

Deed for sudry pieces lands

	To all to whom these presents shall come greeting.  Know ye that I Absalon Boyet 
now of Dobbs County & in the State of No. Carolina, planter, that for and in consideration 
of the sum of one hundred & twenty five pounds current money of the State aforesaid to me 
in hand paid by Obadiah Wade of Duplin County & State aforesad plantet, the rect. I do 
acknowledge & am satisfied contented & paid, have by these presents bargained and sold 
aliened and confirmed assigned & set over to the said Obadiah Wade his heirs exrs. adms. 
& assigns forever, a certain piece or parcel of land containing 5 acres, more or less, it 
being the mority of one hundred & fifty acres which I the aforesaid Absalom Boyet bought 
of Major Croom of Dobbs County as by his deed in the registers office in Duplin will at 
large appear the mority of which land lyeth in Duplin County on the north side of a Branch 
called Spring Branch near Prescots line & the dividing line runs as the fence runs, that 
being the bounds by which is mentioned in John Williams's deed for the mority that Absolom 
Boyet sold to the said John Williams, & whereon Lutson Stroud did live, & runs down the 
spring branch into Panter Swamp, thence up panter swamp & so including all that part, being 
seventy acres more or less, on the north side with all buildings fences & orchards thereon 
together with one hundred acres more or wood land in said County of Duplin on the Et. side 
of the No. East River joining Geo. Smith's line, between the head Panther swamp & the dry 
pocoson.  Begining at a pine George Smith's line & runs with his line No. 36 pole to a pine 
Smith's corner thence with his line Wt. 80 poles to a pine Smith's corner, thence No. 86 
poles to a pine, thence Et. 160 pole to a Lightwood by a meadow at the head of Panter, 
thence So. 120 pole to a Black jack and thence to the begining, togeather with all woods 
waters and water courses thereon standing & growing thereon, and all profits commodities 
advantages & appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining, 
as also the moiety of the aforesaid one hundred and fifty acres of land including the one 
hundred acres of wood land discribed as aforesaid with every part and parcel thereof unto 
the same belonging or in any wise appertaining.  To have & to hold the said moiety with one 
hundred acres of wood land as above mentioned & discribed, be the same mre or less, unto 
him the said Obadiah Wade his heirs executors adms. and assigns forever, & he the said 
Absalom Boyet for himself his heirs executors adms. and assigns doth covenant and agree to 
and with the said Obadiah Wade his heirs and assigns, that he or they shall and may at all 
times hereafter peacibly & quietly hold occupie possess & enjoy the said granted land and 
premises free and clear from all former bargains sales gifts grants mortgages dower right 
or title of dower or any other incumbrance or molestation whatsoev er, allways excepting 
the taxes that is hereafter laid on the same, & he the said Absolum Boyet for himself and 
his heirs doth further promise that he or they shall or will warrant and forever defend the 
said granted land and premises with all the appurtenances unto the said Obediah Wade his 
heirs & assigns forever, from and against him the said Absolom Boyet his heirs & assigns & 
all other persons lawfully claiming or to claim from or under him then or any of them & 
from & against all and all manner of persons who now lawfully claim or hereafter lawfully 
may claim will warrant & forever defend the said lands or any part or parcel thereof, and 
will at any time hereafter at the request of the said Obadiah Wade his heirs & assigns, make 
over and assign any other deed or deeds for the better securing the above mentioned lands 
and premises.  In witness whereof the said Absolom Boyet hath hereunto set his hand and fixed 
his seal this first day of October Anno Domini 1787.
				Absalom Boyet
				Rhody R. Boyet

Signed sealed and delivered for the purposes above mentioned
				Thos. Quinn
				Will Croom

State of No. Carolina Duplin County April Term 1788.
Then was the within deed proved in open Court by the oath of Thomas Quinn & ordered 
to be registered.
	Test		W. Dickson, C. C.





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