William & Nancy Hunter to Owen Brown Deed 28 October 1817
(Transcribed by Hunt Sanders)


(Duplin Co, NC. Deed Book U, pp366-7)

William & Nancy Hunter to Owen Brown 203 acres
Be it known that I, William Hunter, of the County of Duplin & State of North Carolina for & 
in consideration of the sum of Three hundred dollars to me in hand paid by Owen Brown at & 
before the sealing & signing of these presents, the receipt & payment whereof is hereby 
acknowledged, have bargained sold aliened enfeoffed & confirmed & do hereby bargain sell 
enfeoff & confirm unto the said Owen Brown his heirs & assigns forever a certain piece or 
parcel of land lying & being in the County of Duplin & on the East side of Muddy Creek 
Beginning at a black Spruce the beginning corner of a tract of land said to be patented by 
John Brown & running thence N 80 E 84 poles to a pine the second corner or nearest of said 
Browns survey or beginning corner of a tract patented by Charles Bostick & running thence N 
30 E 174 poles to a pine in the line of a survey patented by John Woodward & marked for a 
corner of a piece of said survey conveyed to John Brown thence in a line S 7 E 132 poles 
crossing a small branch to a Chinquapin Tree, thence S 87 W 200 poles to a pine on the line 
of John Brown’s old survey thence N 77 W 100 poles to a to a gum on Muddy Creek Swamp, thence 
swamp line meanders to the first station containing by estimation two hundred & three acres 
be the same more or less being a part of a tract patented by John Brown the __ day of __ part 
of a tract of __ acres patented by Jno Woodward the __ day of __ . All which lands premises 
land tenements & appurtenances  thereunto belonging or in any ways to me the said William 
Hunter doth for myself my heirs Exrs & admrs  warrant & forever defend to the said Owen Brown 
his heirs & assigns forever free & clear from the just & lawful claim or claims of me the said
William Hunter my heirs Exr & admr & from any other person or persons whatever to the only 
proper use benefit & behoof of the said Owen Brown to have & to hold. In testimony whereof I 
the said William Hunter doth hereunto set my hand & affix my seal October 28th day 1817. 
Sealed signed    	William Hunter (Seal)
& delivered in presence of Jesse Brown, Wm Bennett		          her
									Nancy X Hunter(Seal)
									         Mark
State of N. Carolina Duplin County.  January Term 1818.  Then was the within deed proved in 
Court by the oath of William Brown & ordered to be registered.
								Test Wm Dickson  CC






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