Amos Parker To Austin Bryan Deed 13 August 1785
(Transcribed by Joan S Dunn)


Deed Book 1 A Page 329, 330, & 331

Amos Parker To Austin Bryan

Deed for 100 acres lands

	This indenture made the thirteenth day of August in the tenth year of the American 
Independance & in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred & eighty five.  
Between Austin Bryand of the State of North Carolina & County of Duplin of the one part & 
Amos Parker of the same place of the other part.  Witnesseth, that the said Amos Parker 
for divers good causes & considerations him thereunto moving, but more especially for the 
valuable consideration of the sum of ten pounds current money of the State aforesaid to 
him in hand well and truly paid or secured to be paid before the ensealing & delivery of 
these presents, the receupt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath by these presents given 
granted bargained sold assigned & set over to the said Austin Bryan his heirs & assigns 
forever, one certain tract or parcel of land situate lying & being in the County aforesaid, 
on the South side of Muddy Creek joining & between the line of Solomon Pickett William 
Hollingsworth & said Austin Bryan, being part of the contents of a patent granted to 
Stephen Hollingsworth the twenty first day of June one thousand seven hundred & forty six 
for six hundred acres, which land as above contains by estimation one hundred acres, be 
the same more or less, which said one hundred acres of land is known by the name of Jones's 
one hundred acres survey, which said land the lower third of a deed of three hundred acres 
formerly sold by Benjamin Evans to Solomon Parker nad by the said Solomon Parker to the 
aforesaid Amos Parker reference tot he several conveyances in the Registers office of the 
aforesaid County being had may more fully and at large appear.  To have and to hold the 
aforesaid one hundred acres with all the appurtenances to the same belongining or in any 
wise appertaining to him the said Austin Bryan his heirs & assigns forever, free from all 
incumbrance whatever, given granted or done by him the said Amos Parker his heirs & assigns 
or any other person or persons whatever by from or under him the said Amos Parker and the 
said Austin Bryan the aforesaid land and premises shall & may have hold use occupie enjoy 
& possess as his own free & lawfull inheritance free from all incumbrance whatever given 
granted or done by him the said Amos Parker or his heirs & further the said Austin Bryan 
the aforesaid land & premises shall have hold use occupie & enjoy in every degree in as 
full and ample a manner as he the said Amos Parker by any right or title that he hath, 
might or could have enjoyed and the said Amos Parker the aforesaid land and premises to 
him the said Austin Bryan his heirs and assigns shall & will warrant & defend from & 
against him the said Amos Parker his heirs & assigns or any other person whatever claiming 
by from or under him or them or any of them.  In witness whereof the said Amos Parker hath 
hereunto set his hand & seal the date above written.
				Amos Parker

Signed sealed acknowledged & delivered in the presence of
				Joseph Dickson
				John Brice

State of No. Carolina Duplin County October Term 1786.
Then was the within deed proved in open Court by the oath of Joseph Dickson & ordered 
to be registered.
Test		W. Dickson, C. C.




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