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State of North Carolina
Brunswick County
This indenture made the twenty-eighth day
October Anno Domini One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three and
twenty-eighth year of the independence of said state between Joel Allen
of the State of South Carolina of the one part and Benjamin Rowell of
the state of North Carolina of the other part witnesseth:
that for and in consideration of the sum of
fifteen dollars to the said Joel Allen in hand paid by said Benjamin at
and before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt
whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and the therefore doth release
acquit and discharge the said Benjamin his heirs executors and
administrators by these presents he the said Joel has granted bargained
and sold aliened and confirmed and by these presents doth grant,
bargain, sell, alien, and confirm unto the said Benjamin and his heirs
a certain piece or parcel of land situate lying and being in the county
of Brunswick and state aforesaid containing one hundred acres lying on
both sides of a branch known by the name of the Horsepen branch bounded
as followeth: beginning at a pine Daniel McFarlain line and running
east forty chains to a pine, then north twenty five chains, then west
forty chains, then south twenty chains to the beginning which said
tract was granted to the said Joel and all house buildings ways waters
whatsoever is profits commodities hereditaments and remainders rents if
owes and profits thereof and also all the estate rights title and
interest use trust property claim and demand whatsoever of him the said
Joel Allen of in and to the said premises to have and to hold the tract
hereby conveyed and all and singular the premises hereby granted,
bargained, and sold and every part and parcel thereof with their and
every of their privileges, rights, members, and appurtenances unto the
said Benjamin Rowell his heirs and assigns forever to the only proper
use and behoof of him the said Benjamin and of his heirs and assigns
forever and the said Joel Allen for himself heirs executors and
administrators doth covenant promise and grant to and with the said
Benjamin his heirs and assigns against him the said Joel and his heirs
and all and every person and persons whatsoever shall warrant and
forever defend by these presents. In witness whereof I the said Joel
hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year above written.
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of
Elka Allen Junr
William Williams
Joel Allen (seal)
(in deed book E, page 438)
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