JOHN WILLIAMS to SAMUEL SESSOMS Deed 1757
(Transcribed by Carolyn Shank)
JOHN WILLIAMS to SAMUEL SESSOMS, 1757
To all people to ___ these present shall come known yea that I JOHN
WILLIAMS of the Provence of North Carolina in Duplin County for and in
Consideration of the sum of forty (40) pounds proclamation money to me
In hand paid before the making and delivery hand by SAMUEL SESSOMS of
The Provence and county above said the receipts whereof and I do hereby
Acknowledge and myself this with fully satisfied contented paid and with
Every part and parcel do exonerate do quit and discharge the said SAMUEL
SESSOMS his heirs executors administrators or assigns forever One certain
M___ or tract of land situate lying and being in the aforesaid county of
Duplin and on the East side of Black River on the Beaver Dam Swamp
Beginning at a Red Oak on the side of the swamp thence West 179 poles to
Apine thence W70 wt 179 poles to a pine thence S 20 WE 179 poles to a
Stake thence S 70 ET 179 poles to the beginning
Containing two hundred (200) acres as may appear by the Patent Bearing
Date the twenty sixth day of May One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty
Seven 1757 which Patent was granted to FARQUARD CAMPBELL and consigned
By deed from FARQUARD CAMPBELL to the aforesaid JOHN WILLIAMS to have
And to hold the said granted and bargained ____ with all the appenedents
Forclosures and compunction to the same belonging ____ to any made
Appenedents to him the said SAMUEL SESSOMS his heirs executors
Administrators or assigns forever to him and them only proclamation
Binds and ____ forever.
And I the said JOHN WILLIAMS ____ ____ may him execute against
(unable to read last line of page, info found at LDS LIBRARY FILM
# 0553539 page 275 & 276)
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