Willis & Susan Hall Deed to Newman Potts, 1880


Wayne County Register of Deeds, Goldsboro, NC - 100 acres

This deed made this 9th day of January 1880 by Willis P. Hall and wife Susan G. Hall of Wayne County and state of North Carolina to Newman Potts of Wayne County and State of NC.

Witnesseth: that said Willis P. Hall and wife Susan G. in consideration of three hundred dollars to them paid by said Newman Potts, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged have bargained and sold and by these presents do bargain sell and convey unto said Newman Potts and his heirs a tract of land in Wayne County State of North Carolina adjoining the lands of George H. Grantham and others bounded as follows:

Beginning at a stake in the Marsh George H. Grantham's corner and runs N 43 W 13 poles to a stake: then S 47 W 62 poles to a pine: then N 48 W 128 poles: then to a stake: then N 2 W 21 poles to a stake: then N 88 E 135 poles to a stake: then N 8 E 42 poles to a stake: then N 88 E 28 poles to a gum: then S 8 1/2 W 127 poles to the beginning containing one hundred acres more or less and being the same land bought by said W. P. Hall from J. P. Cobb and wife by deed dated July 24, 1876 and recorded in Liber P P page 232.

To have and to hold the aforesaid tract of land and all privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging to the said Newman Potts his heirs and assigns to their only use & behoof.

And the said W. P. Hall and wife Susan G. covenant that they are seized of said premisis in fee and have right to convey the same in fee simple: that the same are free from all incumbrances and that they will warrant and defend the said title to the same against the claims of all persons whatsoever.

In testimony whereof the said Willis P. Hall and wife Susan G. Hall have hereunto set their hand and seals the day and year above written.
W. F. Yelverton CSC
W. P. Hall {Seal}
S. G. Hall {Seal}

State of North Carolina
Wayne County
I, W. T. Yelverton Clerk of the Superior Court do hereby certify that W. P. Hall and S. G. Hall his wife personally appeared before me this day and acknowledges the due execution of the annexed deed of conveyances and the said S. G. Hall being by me privately examined separate and apart from her said husband touching her free consent to the execution of the same doth state that she signed the same freely voluntarily without fear or compulsion of her said husband or any other person & that she doth still voluntarily assent thereto. Let the same with this certificate be registered. Witness my hand and official seal this 9th day of January 1880.
W. T. Yelverton CSC
R. & R. Jany 9, 1880
R. W. Edgerton RegtW. T. Yelverton CSC


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