David Cannon To Kedar Bryan Deed 14 September 1784
(Transcribed by Joan S Dunn)
David Cannon To Kedar Bryan
Deed for 200 acres of lands
This indenture made the fourteenth day of September in the ninth year of the American
Independence and in the year of Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, between David
Conon of the State of No. Carolina and County of Duplin of the one part and Kedar Bryan of the
same place on the other part. Witnesseth, that the said David Cannon for and in consideration
of the sum of seventy pounds current money to him in hand well and truely paid by the said
Kedar Bryan, the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and he the said David Connon hath
given granted bargained sold conveyed confirmed assigned and set over, and by these presents
for himself his heirs executors and administrators doth fully freely and absolutely give grant
bargain sell convey confirm assign and set over unto him the said Kedar Bryan his heirs &
assigns forever all that piece or parcel of land lying and being in the County aforesaid on the
No. side of Stewarts Creek and on the east side of Buckhall swamp joining CornMarch branch on
David Thompson's old line, and runs thence No. 70 Wt. along his line to his corner a pine,
thence So. 62 Wt. 216 poles to a pine McCulloch's corner, thence with his line So. 5 Wt. 54
poles to a blackjack his corner, thence So. 23 Et. 70 pole to a small red oak his corner, thence
Et. 76 pole to a persimmon his corner at the run of the CornMarsh branch, thence up the said run
as it meanders to the begining, and containing in the whole by estimation two hundred acres of
land, be the same more or less it being one half of a tract of 400 acres of land granted by
patent to Benjamin Williams bearing date the 29th of April 1768, since by deeding conveyance
made over to Dennis Cannon, and by a deed of conveyance to David Cannon, and by these presents
made over to Kedar Bryan. To have and to hold the said Kedar Bryan his heirs and assigns the
said hereby granted two hundred acres of land and premises, with the appertenances therunto
belonging, in as full and ample manner as he the said David Connon by his deed of conveyance
fot the same could or might enjoy and the said David Connon for himself his heirs executors
administrators and assigns, do covenant and engage to & with the said Kedar Bryan his heirs
executors administrators & assigns by these presents to warrant secure and forever defend the
siad Kedar Bryan his heirs executors administrators & assigns in the quiet and peacable
possession of and singular the above pre bargained and grnated two hundred acres of land and
premises with the appertenances thereunto belonging every part and parcel, thereof and that
free and clear and freely & clearly acquitted and discharged of and from all and all manner of
former or other gifts grants seales leases mortgages wills judgements or executions and free
and clear from all manner of incumbrances whatsoever except the yearly rents or taxes thereon
due to the State from and after the date hereof. In witness whereof the said David Cannon hath
hereunto set his hand and fixed his seal the day and date above written.
David Cannon
Signed sealed & delivered in presents of
W. Sharpless
Saml. Williams
State of North Carolina, Duplin County, October Court 1784.
Then was the written deed proved in open Court by the oath of Saml. Williams and ordered
to be registered.
Test W. Dickson, C. C.
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