This
indenture made the 3rd day of September in the year of our Lord, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Fifty, between ELIAS WILLIS of the County of Northampton in
the Province of North Carolina, Planter, of the one part and JAMES JOSSY, of
the same County and Province, Cordwainer, of the
second part, Witnesseth there the said ELIAS WILLIS, for and in consideration
of the sum of Twenty and Five Pounds, current money of Virginia, to him in hand
paid, on or before the sealing and delivery hereof, the receipts whereof the
said ELIAS WILLIS doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and of every part and
parcel thereof, doth hereby acknowledge and discharge him the said JAMES
JOSSEY, by these presents hath given, released, bargained and sold, and by
these presents doth give, grant, bargain and sell unto him the said JAMES
JOSSEY, his heirs And assigns forever one __?__ tract or parcel of land containing
100 acres, be the same more or less, situate in the Masara
Meadows, in the County of Northampton, in the Province aforesaid, being the
land whereon the said JAMES JOSSEY now liveth and
being part of a patent formerly granted unto WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, for 195 acres
bearing date the 1st day of April 1723, bound as follows to wit: beginning at a Black Oak near a Meadow, then
South 10 to a post in Little Meadows, RICHARD BRASSWELS line, then along his
line North 70 poles until it comes to a corner stake that makes the division
line between the said ELIAS WILLIS and CHARLES STEVENSON, running the same
lines to a Black Oak at the other corner of the said dividing line. Thence by a line of marked trees to the first station. To
have and to hold the said parcel of land with all woods, underwoods,
ways, waters, water courses, gardens, orchards, profits, commodities and
advantages, with the appurtanances to him the said
JAMES JOSSEY, his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use and behoof of him the said JAMES JOSSEY, his heirs and assigns
forever and the said ELIAS WILLIS, for himself, his heirs, executor and
administrators both covenant and promise and agree to and with the said JAMES
JOSSEY, his heirs and assigns in manner and form following, that is to say, that
he the said ELIAS WILLIS, at the time of sealing and delivery of these presents
hath in himself good right and lawful authority to grant, bargain and sell the
said land and premises unto him the said JAMES JOSSEY, his heirs and assigns in
manner and form aforesaid, and that the said piece of land now is, shall
forever hereafter remain unto the said JAMES JOSSEY, his heirs and assigns,
free and clear, and freely and clearly exonerated and discharged of and from
all former gifts, grants, bargains, sales, leases, uses, entails, mortgages
with judgements, and all other encumbrances
whatsoever, and lastly the said ELIAS WILLIS, for himself his heirs, executors
and administrators with covenant, promise, grant and agree to and with the said
JAMES JOSSEY, his heirs and assigns that he, the said ELIAS WILLIS, shall and
will at all or any time or times hereafter on the reasonable request of him the
said JAMES JOSSEY, his heirs and assigns, at his or their proper cost and
charges make and execute and acknowledge all and every other act and acts, deed
and deeds, thing and things convenance and convenances and for the better and more perfect assuring
and conveying the said parcel of land unto him the said JAMES JOSSEY, his heirs
and assigns forever as by their council, learned in the Law shall be devised,
advised or required, the witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and fixed
my seal the day and year above written.
Sealed And Delivered in presence of
ELIAS WILLIS
JOHN DUKE,
THOMAS WILLIS, SAMUEL COTTON
November
Court 1750, The above written deed was acknowledged in
open Court in due form of Law which on motion was ordered to be registered.