James Pearsall High Sheriff To Thomas Hooks Deed 18 January 1785
(Transcribed by Joan S Dunn)


Deed Book 1 A Page 105, 106, 107, & 108

James Pearsall High Sheriff To Thomas Hooks

	January Court 1785.  Deed for 125 acres lands.

This indenture made the eighteenth day of January in the ninth year of the American Independance, 
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 
Thomas Hooks of the same County in the State aforesaid on the other part, thence a writ of 
Vendication Exponos & Fieri Facias issuing from the office of the Clerk of the County Court of 
Duplin aforesaid in the following woods, to wit, State of North Carolina.  To the Sheriff of 
Duplin County greeting.  You are hereby commanded that of the goods & chattels lands and tenements
of Hermon Bass if to be found in your Bailywick, you cause to be made the sum of sixty pounds 
specie, which lately in the County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions at Duplin Thomas Hoods 
recovered against him the said Hermon Bass for damages and also the sum of three pounds sixteen 
shillings and nine pence specie for cost & charges in the said suit expended, whereof the said 
Harmon Bass is convicted and liable as appears to us of record and have you the said money before
the justices of the said County Court at Duplin on the third monday of October next then and 
there to satisfie and pay the said Thomas Hooks his damages cost & charges aforesaid together 
with your own fees for this sevice, herein fail not, and have you then and there this writ.  
Witness William Dickson Clerk of the said Court of Duplin the 24th day of July Anno Domini 1783.
By virtue of which said writ the said sheriff did enter upon & take into his possission one 
certain tract or parcel of land on the north side of the North East Swamp in the said County of 
Duplin jooining George Kornegay's lands and being the land whereon the widow Bass then lived and 
is bounded as follows to wit.  Begining at a pine George Kenegay;s and Andres Bass's other 
corner by an old field at Kernegay's other line, thence along Kornegay's line No. 30 Wt. 200 
poles to a stake on the head line dividing said Andrew Bass's land from George Kornegay's land, 
thence along the head line and crossing the branch So. 60 Wt. 110 pole to a small white oak & 
black oak his corner, thence along Edmund Duncan's line to the begining, and containing in the 
whole one hundred & twenty five acres be the same more or less, which being the property of the 
said Hermon Bass being deceased and the said one hundred and twenty five acres of land being 
advertized according to law was expected to sale at public vendue on the second day of September 
in the year of our Lord 1783, and the said Thomas Hooks being then and there presents on the 
premises on the day aforesaid, did bid off the said tract or parcel of land containing one 
hundred and twenty five acres, at the sum of twenty pounds ten shillings specie and was the 
last and highest bider etc.  Now this indenture witnesseth that the said James Pearsall Sheriff 
of Duplin County aforesaid by virtue of and in pursuance of his said office & the writ aforesaid, 
and for and in consideration of the sum of twenty pounds ten shilling specie, 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 alined enfeoffed assigned 
set over conveyed and confirmed by virtue of his said office and in pursuance of the writ 
aforesaid as fully as he can and is hereby empowered and enabled, doth by these presents grant 
bargain sell alien enfeoffe transfer assign and set over convey and confirm unto the said Thomas 
Hooks all the aforesaid one hundred and twenty five acres of land, situate lying and being as 
before herein discribed, with all the woods waters profits and advantages whatsoever to the said 
one hundred and twenty five acres of land, and every part & parcel hereof, and all the estate 
right title interest clame & demand of the said Herman Bass therein to have and to hold the said 
one hundred and twenty five acres of land herein mentioned or intended to be granted sold alines 
transfered set over assigned conveyed and confirmed unto the said Thomas Hooks his heirs and 
assigns forever, to the only proper use and behoofs of the said Thomas Hooks his heirs and assigns 
forever, in as full & ample manner as he the said James Pearsall Sheriff of Duplin County 
aforesaid by virtue of his said office of Sheriff aforesaid and in execution of the writ 
aforesaid and is hereby enabled to convey alter transferr & change the same, and the said James 
Pearsall doth covenant promise and agree to and with the said James Pearsall Sheriff of Duplin 
County aforesaid will warrant & defend the said granted and bargained premises unto the said 
Thomas Hooks his heirs and assigns against the said James Pearsall and his heirs and against 
all and every other person or persons whatsoever claimin under him the said James Pearsall his 
heirs or assigns so far as he is empowered and enabled by virtue of his said office of Sheriff 
and in pursuance of the act of Assembly in such case made and provided.  In witness whereof the 
said James Pearsall hath hereunto set his hand & seal the day & date first above written.
				James Pearsall

Signed sealed & delivered in presence of us
				William Dickson
				Joseph Dickson

State of North Carolina Duplin County January Court 1785.
Then was the within deed acknowledged in open Court & ordered to be registered.
		Test		W. Dickson, C. C.






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