Dennis Cannon To Kedar Bryan Deed 14 September 1784
(Transcribed by Joan S Dunn)

Deed Book 1 A Page 61 & 62

Dennis Cannon To Kedar Bryan

Deed for 200 acres of lands

	This indenture made the fourteenth day of September in the ninth year of American 
Independence and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, between 
Dennis Cannon of the State of No, Carolina & County of Duplin of the one part & Kedar Bryan 
of the same place of the other part.  Witnesseth, that the said Dennis Cannon for and in 
consideration of the sum of one hundred pounds current money to him in hand paid by Kedar 
Bryan aforesaid the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge & he the said Dennis Cannon 
hath given granted bargained sold conveyed confirmed assigned and set over to him the said 
Kedar Bryan his and assigns forever all tha piece or parcel of land lying & being in the 
County aforesaid on the North side of Stewarts Creek, and on the East side of Carr Marsh.  
Begining at a persimon at the run of the Carr Marsh, thence down the said run as it meanders 
& Buckhall Swamp along John Adkinson's So. 10 Wt. 40 poles to a white oad by the side of the 
swamp, James Wiliams's corner, thence No. 85 Et. 42 poles to a white oak, thence straight to 
the begining, containing in the whole two hundred acres be the same more or less, being half 
the contents of a patten of 400 acres of land granted to Benjamin Williams bearing date the 
29th of April 1768 and since be a deed of conveyance made over to the said Kedar Bryan, To 
have and to hold to him the said Kedar Bryan his heirs & assigns forever, the said hereby 
granted two hundred acres of land and premises withe the appertenances thereunto belonging 
in as full and ample manner as he the said Dennis Cannon by his deed of conveyances for the 
same could or might enjoy and the said Dennis Connon for himself his heirs executors 
administrators doth covenant and engage to and with the said Kedar Bryan his heirs executors 
administrators and assigns by these presents to warrant secure and forever defend tha said 
Kedar Bryan his heirs executors administrators & assigns in quiet and peacable possession of 
all and singular the above bargained and granted two hundred acres of land and premises with 
the appertenanes therunto belonging and every part and parcel thereof and that free and clear 
and freely and clearly acquited and discharged off and from all and all manner of former or 
other gifts grants sales leases mortgages wills judgments executions and fre and clear from 
all manner of incumbrances whatsoever except the yearly rents or taxes thereon becoming dut 
to the State from and after the date hereof.  In witness whereof the said Dennis Connon hath 
hereunto set his hand and fixed his seal the day & date first above written.
				Dennis Cannon

Signed sealed & delivered in presents of 
				John Armstrong
				Robert Williams

State of North Carolina, Duplin County, October Court 1784.
Then was the written deed proved in open Court by the oath of Robert Williams and ordered 
to be registered.
		Test		W. Dickson, C. C.




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