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Deed: Guin (Quin?) to Braswell,
Edgecombe Co., North Carolina 1742
North Carolina
To all People to whom these Presents shall come Christopher Guin
of Edgecombe County and province afsd send greeting _____ that I
the said Christopher Guin for and in consideration of the sum ot
fifteen pounds current money of the colony of Virginia to me in
hand paid at or before the sealing and delivery hereof by JAMES
BRASWELL of the COunty and province afsd ____ the receipt
whereof I acknowledged ___ ____ therewith fully satisfied
contented and ___ have granted bargained sold conveyed eufeoffd
confirmed assigned and set over and by these presents do freely
fully and absolutely grant bargain sell convey confirm assign
and set over unto the sd JAMES BRASWELL his heirs and assigns
forever a certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred
and fifty acres be the sum more or less lying and being on the
south side of Roanoke River the said one hundred and fifty acres
of land is butted and bounded as follows viz beginning upon
Roanoak River at the mouth of the Fort Branche at JOSEPH MOORE's
corner tree thence up his line a mill? back? thence along the
back line to JOHN RYAL's corner so along the sd RYAL's to the
river thence down the river to the first station To have, to
hold the sd tract or pracel of land containing one hundred and
fifty acres be the same more or less whether with all houses
orchards ___ ____ and trees thereon standing lying or growing
with all woods waters and rivers with all of its commodities and
herediments to the same belonging or in any manner of ways
appertaining unto him the said JAMES BRASWELL his heirs and
assigns forever and the sd Christopher Guin for himself his
heirs executors adm: doth ____ grant promise and agree to and
with the sd JAMES BRASWELL his heirs and assigns in manner
followith that is to say that the said Christopher GUIN at the
sealing and delivery of these presents hath a good right title
and estate of ___stance in ___ premises in fee simple and hath
full right and lawful authority to bargain and sell the same in
manner afd unto the said JAMES BRASWELL his heirs assigns
forever and the sd CHRISTOPHER GUIN ___ to and adm_ doth further
promise and warrant that the said land and premisses___ from the
lawful claims or demands of any person or persons whatsoever
deed the same will warrent secure and forever defend unto the
said JAMES BRASWELL his heirs and assigns forever In witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 5th day of
January in the fifteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the second King of Great Britain France and Ireland
Defender of the Faith and on the ___ of our Lord Christ one
thousand Seven hundred and forty one Christopher Guin __ __
signed Sealed and Delivered in presence of us. JOSEPH KEMALL?
JOSEPH CANE Edgecomb COunty __ Court 1742. THe within Deed of
sale was in open Court proved by the oath of JOSEPH CANE one of
the subscribing ____ thereto which on motion is ordered to be
recorded . Witnesses ROBERT FORSTER ____ [In different
handwriting] To Jas. Braswell - deed
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