Phillip Rouse To Elizabeth Mary Rouse Deed 4 October 1784
(Transcribed by Joan S Dunn)

Deed Book 1 A Page 74 & 75

Phillip Rouse To Elizabeth Mary Rouse

Bill of Sale

 	To all to whome it may concern, Know ye that we Phillip Rouse and Elizabeth Mary Rouse 
his wife connot live happily together, have peacibly and quietly agreed to divide our living 
and part, as we do in manner as follows, that is I Phillip Rouse do for myself my heirs executors
& assigns make & set over all that part of property that I got be her at the time of our marriage
that is to say, one gray horse branded on the shoulder & buttock this 64, one cow and calf, 
twelve head of hogs, one feather bed and furniture, two pewter dishes three basins and six 
pewter plated,  one iron pot and iron pot trammel, two iron flan hackles, one linning wheel and 
one wool ditto, one carpentens adds four iron cleavires one auger, two chisels, one pair wool 
shears, one iron chain, one Lest, one truck and my side saddle, and one marrow as and one iron 
wedge, and one small barrof iron, one horse saddle the above mentioned articles i do for myself 
my heirs executors and assigns truly and peacebly make and set over unto my wife Elizabeth Mary 
Rouse, to her and her heirs forever to be to their only proper use benefit and behoof as they 
shall think proper.  In witness whereof I have set my hand and affixed my seal the fourth day 
of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty four.
				Phillip Rouse

In presence of
				Wm. Best
				Jas. Evans
				Elizabeth Rouse

State of No. Carolina, Duplin County, October court 1784.
Then was the within deed proved in open Court by the oath of Wm. Best and ordered 
to be registered.
	
	Test		W. Dickson, C. C.






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