James Pearsall Shff. To Jesse Darden Deed 15 August 1785
(Transcribed by Joan S Dunn)

Deed Book 1 A Page 513, 514, & 515

James Pearsall Shff. To Jesse Darden

Deed for 287 acres lands

	Know all men by these presents that I James Pearsall Esquire Sheriff of the County 
of Duplin in the State of North Carolina have this day sold unto Jesse Darden of the County 
of Sampson & State aforesaid for and in consideration of the sum of twenty six pounds three 
shillings to me in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, a certain piece 
or parcel of land situate lying and being in Duplin County of both sides of Buck Hall swamp, 
between the line of John Adkinson, Robert Hicks, Handcock Hatcher, James Thompson, John 
Valentine Taylor & Kedar Bryan.  Begining at a white oak a corner tree of Kedar Bryan's land 
So. 32 Wt. 62 poles to a stake his corner, thence his other line So. 2 Wt. 37 to a stake in 
the edge of Buck Hall Adkinson's corner, thence crossing the swamp with his line SO. 87 Wt. 
104 poles to a pine his corner, thence Robert Hicks'es line No. 30 Wt. 90 poles to a stake, 
thence No. 60 Wt. 64 poles to a white oak, thence No. 35 Wt. 68 poles to a gum and pine in 
a drain his corner, thence No. 31 Wt. 20 poles to a pine, thence No. 20 Wt. 64 poles to a 
popular Hatcher's corner in a sprind Branch, thence down the run thereof as it meanders to 
the mouth on a straight line, So. 72 Et. 124 pole to a water oak on the run of Buck Hall, 
thence on or near James Thompson's line No. 27 Et. 80 pole to a pine his corner, thence 
Taylor's line So. 45 Et. 40 poles to a pine, thence So. 26 Et. 62 poles to a pine, thence 
So. 55 Et. 40 poles to a red oak, thence No. 25 Et. 100 poles to a pine, thence So. 60 Et. 
62 poles to a pine, thence So. 5 WSt. 54 poles to a stake, thence So. 23 Et. to the begining, 
containing by estimatin two hundred & eighty seven acres aforesaid, be the same more or less, 
late the property of Henry Eustus McCulloch by me levied upon and sold at public vendue 
pursuant to the States writ of Fieri Facias to me directed from the Court of Pleas and Quarter 
Sessions held for the County of Duplin aforesaid, as of Sessions issued on the judgment of 
James Lockhart he recovered against the said Henry Eustace McCulloch, in the said Court as 
aforesaid in the tenth year of American Independence for a debt of...... for damages & cost 
in the prosecution of the complaint of the said James Lockhart against him the said Henry 
Eustus McCulloch, the said execution having been duly levied & publick notice given agreeable 
to law, the said two hundred and eighty seven acres of land as aforesaid were by me sold in 
virtue of my office at publick sale on the 15 day of August 1785, at which sail Jesse Darden 
aforesaid became the highest bidder.  Therefore this deed witnesseth that I James Pearsall 
Sheriff of Duplin County aforesaid have granted bargained & conveyed unto him the said Jesse 
Darden the aforesaid two hundred & eighty seven acres of land with all and singular the 
appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining.  To have and to hold the 
premises aforesaid unto him the said Jesse Darden his heirs & assigns forever.  In witness 
whereof I the said James Pearsall Sheriff of the County of Duplin aforesaid at Duplin Court 
House hath hereunto set his hand and seal this fifteenth day of August in the year of our 
Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty five.
				James Pearsall

Signed sealed & delivered in the presence of 
				C. Ivy
				Peter Winnants

January Term 1788.
Then was the within deed acknowledged in open Court & ordered to be registered.
	Test		W. Dickson, C. C.




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