James Pearsall Sheriff To Ephraim Garrason Deed 15 October 1785

James Pearsall Sheriff To Ephraim Garrason Deed 15 October 1785

(Transcribed by Joan S Dunn) Deed Book 1 A Page 210, 211, 212, & 213 James Pearsall Sheriff To Ephraim Garrason Deed for 100 acres lands This indenture made this fifteenth day of October, in the tenth year of the American Independence, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, between James Pearsall Esqr. High Sheriff of the County of Duplin in the State of North Carolina of the one part, and Ephraim Garrason of the same place of the other part. Whereas by a writ of Fieri Facias issued from the County Court of Duplin in the following words. To wit. State of North Carolina. To the Sheriff of Duplin COunty greeting, You are hereby commanded that of the goods & chattels lands & tenements of William Egerton if to be found in your Bailywick you cause to be made the sum of twenty pounds ten shilling, which lately in the County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions at Duplin, James Middleton recovered against him the debt as also three pounds five shillings & seven pence like money for cost & charges in said sort expended, whereof the said William Egerton is liable as appears of recore & have you the said monies before the said Court at Duplin on the third monday in January next, there to render to the said James Middleton his damages & cost aforesaid. Herein fail not & have you there this writ. Witness William Dickson Cleark of the said Court, at Duplin the twentyeth day of October in the ninth year of American Independence Anno Domini 1784. By virtue of which said writ the Sheriff did enter upon & take possession of a certain tract of land, situate lying and being in the County of Duplin aforesaid on the No. East side of Stockinghead branch joining JOhn Milton's line. Begining at a red oak by said line, runing thence No. 35 Et. 34 chains & 64 links to a small pine, thence So. 55 Et. 31 chains & 64 links, to a small pine in a Savannah, thence So. 35 Wt. 31 chains & 64 links to a large pine by John Milton's line, thence to the first station, containing in the whole one hundred acres, be the same more or less, being the contents of a patent granted to Jacob Hanchey the fifth day of Decembert 1769, and by several conveyances becom the property of William Egerton, did according to law advertise and expose the same to sale on the tenth day of December 1784, and the said Ephraim Garrason being then & there present, upon the premises on the said tenth day of December aforesaid did bid off the said tract of land at the sum of twenty five pounds one shilling & was the last & highest bedder, now this indenture Witnesseth, that the said James Pearsall Sheriff of Duplin County aforesaid by virtue of & in pursuance of his said office & the writ aforesaid, & for and in consideration of the sum of twenty five pounds one shilling to the said James Pearsall in hand paid before the sealing & delivery of these presents the receipt whereof the said James Pearsall doth hereby acknowledge, hath granted bargained & sold laiend enfeoffed assignes and set over conveyed & confirmed by virtue of his said office and pursuance of the writ aforesaid as fully as he can and is thereby empowered and enables, doth by these presents grant bargain & sell alien enfeoffe transfer assign & set over convey & confirm unto the said Ephraim Garrason all the afoaresaid tract of land containing one hundred acres lying and being as before mentioned with all the woods waters profits & advantagew whatsoever to the said one hundred acres of land and of every part & parcel thereof belonging or in any wise appertaining, and all the estate right title interest claim or demand of the said James Pearsall, thence in to have and to hold the said tract of land herein mentioned or intended to be sold aliened transfered assignes set over conveyed and confirmed unto the said Ephraim Garrason his heirs & assigns forever, to the only proper use benefit & behoofe of the said Ephraim Garrason his heirs & assigns forever, in as full & ample manner as he the said James Pearsall Sheriff of Duplin County aforesaid by virtue of his office of Sheriff & in execution of the writ aforesaid, and is hereby enabled to convey transfer and change the same, and the said James Pearsall doth covenant promise and agree to & with the said Ephraim Garrason his heirs & assign, that the said James Pearsall Sheriff of Duplin County aforesaid will warrent and defend the said granted & bargained premises unto the said Ephraim Garrason his heirs and assigns against, the said James Pearsall hie heirs or assigns so far as he is impowered and enabled by virtue of his said office of Sheriff and in pursuance of the writ & of the act of Assembly in such case made & provided. In witness, whereof the said James Pearsall hath hereunto set his hand & seal the day and date first above written. James Pearsall Signed Sealed & delivered in presence of us James Gillespie Joseph Dickson Duplin County July Court 1785. Then was the within deed acknowledged in open Court & ordered to be registered. Test W. Dickson, C. C.

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