Joel Wilder To Jesse Brown Deed 25 October 1786
(Transcribed by Joan S Dunn)


Deed Book 1 A Page 414, & 415

Joel Wilder To Jesse Brown

Deed for 120 acres lands

	This indenture made this twenty fifty day of October one thousand seven hundred and 
eighty six, Between Joel Wilder of the County of Duplin & State of No. Carolina of the one 
part, & Jesse Brown of the same province & County aforesaid of the other part.  Witnesseth, 
that the said Joel Wilder for and inconsideration of the sum of twenty four pounds specie to 
him in hand paid at or before the ensealing & delivery hereof, the receipt whereof he doth 
acknowledge and himself to be fully satisfied & contented, and thereof and therefrom doth 
acquit, the said Jesse Brown his heirs executors admns. & by these presents for himself his 
heirs executors and administrators hath and doth fully freely and absolutely bargain sell 
enfeoffe convey & forever confirm unto the said Jesse Brown his heirs and assigns, one certain 
tract or parcel of land containing one hundred and twenty acres be the same more or less, 
lying in Duplin County on a branch of Moody Creek called Stephen's swamp, being part of a 
survey of land granted to Joshua Lee for one hundred & eighty acres, by a pattent bearing 
date 1764, the said one hundred & twenty acres being bounded as follows.  Begining at the 
mouth of a Branch called Jacobs Branch (a dividing line) thence up the branch to the patent 
line, thence Wt. 240 pole to a pine, thence So. 15 Et. 120 pole to a pine, thence a direct 
line to the bagining.  To have and to hold the said hundred and twenty acres of land & 
premises, with the appurtenances unto the said Jesse Brown his heirs and assigns forever, 
and I the said Joel Wilder my heris and assigns do convey the above said land unto Jesse 
Brown his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawfull claim of any person or persons 
whatever.  I do warrant and forever defend the said bargained premiseds unto the said Jesse 
Brown his heirs and assigns forever.  In witness, whereof I have hereunto set my hand & 
fixed my seal the day and date first above written.
				Joel Wilder

Signed sealed & delivered in the presence of
				Wm. Farrior
				Mary Farrior

State of No. Carolina Duplin County July Term 1787.
Then was the within deed proved in open Court by the oath of William Farrior & ordered 
to be registered.
Test			W. Dickson, C. C.






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