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Granville County Deeds
DAVID BRADFORD to LEWIS TAYLOR- 1793
Deed Book P, Pages 15

This Indenture made this Eighteenth day of June & in the Year of Our Lord 1793 between DAVID BRADFORD of the State of North Carolina & County of Granville of the one part & LEWIS TAYLOR of this sd. State & County of the other part Witnesseth that the sd. DAVID BRADFORD JN. for & in consideration of the sum of three hundred pounds current money of Virg'a the Rec't of which he doth hereby acknowledge discharge & acquit the sd. LEWIS TAYLOR his heirs & assigns forever have bargained sold released & confirmed & by these presents doth bargain sell release & confirm to the sd. LEWIS TAYLOR his heirs & assigns forever one certain tract or parcel of land situate lying & being in the sd. State of North Carolina & County of Granville it being the whole of the land left to me by my father THOMAS BRADFORD Sen'r deceased bounded by PHILIP BRADFORD JUN'R, DAVID BRADFORD SEN'R, and the lands of JOHN BRADFORD containing by estimation five hundred acres be the same more or less together with all houses, orchards, waters, woods, ways, paths, profits, & appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining to the sd. LEWIS TAYLOR his heirs & assigns forever to have & to hold the above granted land & premises & all and singular the premises to the sd. LEWIS TAYLOR his heirs & assigns forever the sd. DAVID BRADFORD JUN'R doth hereby warrant and grant that the above granted land & premises & every part thereof to the sd. LEWIS TAYLOR his heirs & assigns shall & will warrant & forever defend by these presents and that the sd. LEWIS TAYLOR at all times forever hereafter may peaceably & quickly have hold & occupy possess & enjoy the same. In witness whereof I the sd. DAVID BRADFORD have hereunto set his hand & seal the day & year first above written.
DAVID BRADFORD

Signed sealed & delivered in presents of
DRURY BRIDGES, CHA'S TAYLOR, EDM'D TAYLOR JR

Granville County Court
November Session A.D. 1793
DAVID BRADFORD ack'd the execution of this deed in open court & the same on motion was ordered to be registered.

Truly reg'd
M. SATTERWHITE P.R.

Test
A. HENDERSON C.C.

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Granville County Deeds
HOWEL & HENRY BRIGGS to DAVID J. YOUNG- 1841
Deed Book 11, Pages 59-60

North Carolina Granville County
4th day of Nov 1841
The purport of this agreement showeth that HOWELL BRIGGS & HENRY BRIGGS hired for the present year from DAVID J. YOUNG a Negro man CASWELL for the sum of one hundred & thirty dollars (the sd YOUNG finding clothes & bord [sic] for sd Negro) to be due as the work was rendered & due in all the 25th December next the said HOWELL being liable for two thirds & the said HENRY for one third of the hire and the said HOWELL being indebted to the said D. J. YOUNG in the further sum of $26.45, with int. from the 31st day of Dec'r last. Now for the purpose of securing to the said DAVID J. YOUNG & his heirs the prompt & faithful payment of the aforesaid sums of money to be paid by or before the said 25th day of Dec'r next and at a pledge for the prompt payment of the same we the said HOWELL BRIGGS & HENRY BRIGGS do hereby grant assign makeover alien & deliver unto him the said DAVID J. YOUNG & his heirs forever all the monies which now is due on our shop books & also all that may be due on the 25th day of Dec'r next and do hereby give him the said YOUNG full ample legal & complete authority to collect the same also we further assign & deliver the books containing the accts also one bay mare, one clock & one feather bed & furniture and one no horn cow & one pine cupbord and we hereby agree that if the aforementioned debts shall not be promptly paid by the said 25th day of Dec'r next that the said YOUNG is hereby authorised to collect the debts as well before as after the said 25th day of Dec'r next that may be due on the shop books and after that time to dispose of the other property for the purpose of raising money to discharge the said debts- and to apply the same to the discharge of them until the whole is paid but it is distinctly understood that this assignment may be recorded at any time either before or after the above named day by the discharge of the said debts. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands & seals this day & year first above written.
HOWEL BRIGGS
HENRY BRIGGS ("X" his mark)

Enterlined before assigned
Acknowledged in presence of
S. G. SHERMAN JR.

North Carolina
Granville County
November Court A.D. 1841
The execution of the foregoing deed was duly proven on oath in open court by SQUIRE G. SHERMAN and ordered to be registered.
Witness
JAS. M. WIGGINS Clk

Presented and delivered to me for registration the 13th day of November 1841 and duly registered next day.

By W.V. PASCHALL D.R.

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Granville County Deeds
JOHN BULLOCK to WILLIAM FLEMING- 1845
Deed Book 13, Page 477-478

This Indenture made and entered into this 2 day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty five between JOHN D. BULLOCK trustee for JAMES HEFLIN and Wife of the first part and WILLIAM FLEMING of the second part all of the County of Granville and State of North Carolina witnesseth that whereas the aforesaid JAMES HEFLIN and wife MARTHA executed to the aforesaid JOHN D. BULLOCK their deed for the following property to wit one tract of land containing two hundred and forty acres adjoining the lands of the aforesaid JOHN D. BULLOCK, OBEDIAH WINSTON, WILLIS B. MITCHELL & others also their interest in another tract of land in same County containing three hundred and fifty eight acres of land adjoining the land of E. H. CARTER & others also Negroes DANIEL, JERRY, ISBEL, ALFRED, CHARITY, NANCY, CHARLOTTE, LUCY, NATHAN, BECKY, SALLY, ELIAS & ELIZA. And whereas the aforesaid deed as first proved that the said JOHN D. BULLOCK at the request of the said WILLIAM FLEMING shall advertise & sell the said property and the aforesaid JOHN D. BULLOCK having duly advertised the same to be sold at Wilton on the 2nd day of April 1845 being this day and having offered the same agreeable to the provision of said Deed in Trust and WILLIAM FLEMING being then and there the last and highest bidder at the price of three hundred and fifty dollars the same was struck off to him now for deed in consideration of the premises and for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars to the said JOHN D. BULLOCK Trustee as aforesaid in hand paid by the said WILLIAM FLEMING the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath bargained sold and delivered and by these presents doth bargain sell and deliver unto the said WILLIAM FLEMMING and his heirs and assigns forever all the before mentioned property it being all the property conveyed in said deed in Trust to the said JOHN D. BULLOCK which Deed in Trust appears of record in the Registers office of Granville County and registered on the 14th day of October A.D. 1842 in Book 11, Page 470 to have and to hold the aforesaid land and Negroes to him the said WM FLEMMING and his heirs and assign forever. And the aforesaid JOHN D. BULLOCK Trustee as aforesaid for himself his heirs Exc'rs & administrators hereby warrants and defends the title of the aforesaid lands and Negroes to him the said WM. FLEMMING & his heirs and assigns forever so fair as title is noted in him as Trustee as aforesaid and no further. In witness whereof the said JOHN D. BULLOCK Trustee hath hereunto set his hand & seal this day & date first above written.
JOHN D. BULLOCK

Witness
L. A. PASCHALL

North Carolina
Granville County
August Court A.D. 1845

The execution of the foregoing deed was duly proven on oath in open court by LUNSFORD A. PASCHALL the subscribing witness thereto and ordered to be registered.
Witness
JAS. M. WIGGINS Clk

Duly Reg't pr L. A. PASCHALL PR

[a very faded deed]

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