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Lenoir County, North Carolina These are selected deeds from the existing Lenoir County Deed Books found at the Court house in Kinston. They include all re-registered deeds, deeds that refer back to earlier deeds and deeds that imply inheritance. The courthouse burned in 1878 and 1880 destroying previous deeds. Abstracted by Martha M. Marble.
Book 2
P 68 - 28 Jan 1881 - Everett R. Rouse and wife Betty F. Rouse to Edward
R. Stanly Tull - $1200 for 68 acres - tract adj Mrs. Cynthia Dunn, John
C. Washington, Jericho Branch, Leander and James Faulkner's corner -
tract is all the land conveyed by John Tull on 1 Nov 1875 to sd. E. R.
Rouse.
P 554 - Indenture - 7 Dec 1850 - Levi Hill and wife Mary to Richard W.
King - $1150 for 161 acres - tract NS Neuse - adj main road leading
from Kinston to Bell's Ferry, SE corner of Kinston, Walter Dunn Jr's
line formerly Warren Kilpatrick's line - being a part of the land set
aside to James Aldridge in the division of the lands of Frederick Jones
dec and being the lands conveyed by James Grace to Levi Hill and wife
Mary by deed 7 Nov 1842. Levi signed and Mary used a mark.
Book 7
P 26 - Indenture - 15 March 1858 - John Tull and Cynthia his wife to
William W. Dunn - for natural love and affection for our brother and
$10 - the late Walter Dunn Sr., dec by his Will submitted to the Court
of Pleas and Quarter Sessions on Jan Term 1851 devised to Cynthia Dunn,
widow of sd Walter during her life 2 tracts "the house tract together
with the Lewis C. Desmond and Elizabeth land" - adj Henry Tull's corner
of the William Lovick land, corner of Henry Black land, Wooten Branch
to Jericho Swamp, to Daniel Desmond land, to Popular Branch, William
Croom's land, to the house tract, to Henry Tull's corner of the land
bought of William B. Rhem and wife, Rudy Branch, Shadrack Loftin, John
C. Washington, to Henry Tull's corner of the Lovick land - 700 acres -
sd Walter Dunn in the next to last clause of sd Will devised the above
lands after the death of his wife, Cynthia, to be equally divided
between Martha Ann J. Dunn, William W. Dunn, Synthia Ann Dunn, Thomas
F. Dunn, Almyoa R. Dunn and Melissa A. Dunn - provided they all live to
be 21 years old or marry - the above children are his 6 youngest - if
they arrive at 21 or marry they are to receive their portion leaving
the rest in common stock - the sd Cynthia Ann Dunn has intermarried
with the sd John Tull and we convey our share to him.
P 210 - Indenture - 12 Dec 1870 - Robt. H. Rountree and Cynthia his
wife to Winnie R. Tull wife of John Tull - $10,000 for 2 tracts - adj
John Tull, Walter Dunn Sr., dec, Martha A. J. Rountree wife of S. H.
Rountree, and known as the Tower Hill and Lewis B. Cox places - 691 acres.
P 211 - 19 Oct. 1858 - Whereas an Indenture of Marriage Settlement of
three parts was entered into and executed on 28 Dec 1853 between E. H.
Chadwick of Craven Co, and Theresa F. Dunn and Samuel H. Rountree of
Lenoir Co in view of a marriage between the sd Chadwick and sd Dunn and
the marriage was soleminized by law, and by deed of settlement all the
undivided interest of the sd Dunn in the lands and slaves of her father
Walter Dunn, dec by his last will and testament was conveyed in fee and
absolute property to the sd Samuel H. Rountree for the sole use of sd
Dunn during her marriage - the land of Walter Dunn has been partitioned
among the heirs - we Sd Rountree and E. H. Chadwick and Theresa
Chadwick for $5,000 paid to sd Theresa by John Tull - the tract NS
Neuse, part of Tower Hill, being Lot # 3 in the division of sd Walter
Dunn's estate - flat Branch, adj Lot # 2, to river bank then up the
river - 250 acres.
P 213 - Indenture - 5 Jan 1854 - William W. Dunn to John Tull - $3,000
for 293 acres - tract NS Neuse and known as Lot # 2 in the division of
the lands of Walter Dunn, Sr., dec, adj Lot # 1, Flat Branch, up the river.
P 269 - Indenture - 13 April 1871 - George K. Bagley and Helen M. his
wife to J. H. Stevenson - $2,000 for 410 acres - tract adj Wm. Fields,
Wm. Faulkner, Warren Kilpatrick, Wilson Tilghman, NS Briery, Dunn,
Wooten's Branch, Jericho Branch, Thomas Becton, W. B. Kilpatrick -
being the tract allotted to sd Helen B. Bagby in the division of the
lands of her father, Walter Dunn dec.
P 230 - Indenture - 1 May 1871 - Richard W. King to Mrs. Cynthia Dunn,
Samuel H. Rountree and Andrew J. Loftin, Trustees of the Disciples
Church of Kinston - $300 for a lot in Kinston - being the lot where the
Disciples Church is now located, on Caswell Street, adj A. R. Miller
and being the lot purchased by E. F. Cox of Michael Tilghman and by the
sd King of E. F. Cox - being Lot # 41.
P 211 - 19 Oct. 1858 - Whereas an Indenture of Marriage Settlement of
three parts was entered into and executed on 28 Dec 1853 between E. H.
Chadwick of Craven Co, and Theresa F. Dunn and Samuel H. Rountree of
Lenoir Co in view of a marriage between the sd Chadwick and sd Dunn and
the marriage was soleminized by law, and by deed of settlement all the
undivided interest of the sd Dunn in the lands and slaves of her father
Walter Dunn, dec by his last will and testament was conveyed in fee and
absolute property to the sd Samuel H. Rountree for the sole use of sd
Dunn during her marriage - the land of Walter Dunn has been partitioned
among the heirs - we Sd Rountree and E. H. Chadwick and Theresa
Chadwick for $5,000 paid to sd Theresa by John Tull - the tract NS
Neuse, part of Tower Hill, being Lot # 3 in the division of sd Walter
Dunn's estate - flat Branch, adj Lot # 2, to river bank then up the
river - 250 acres.
Book 8
P 336 - Deed - 25 Feb. 1886 - John Tull and W. R. his wife to Albert L.
Rountree - $6,500 for 290 acres - tract adj Henry Tull, John Tull,
upper end of the Bright sein beach, on Neuse River, Flat Branch - being
part of the old Dunn tract drawn by W. W. Dunn and 30 acres of that
part drawn by Mrs. Theresa F. Chadwick.
P 399 - Deed - 1 Nov. 1875 - John Tull and Winnie R. his wife to
Everett R. Rouse - $2,000 for 207 acres - tract adj Leander Falkner,
James Falkner, John R. Phillips, John C. Washington, Cynthia Dunn,
Jericho Branch.
P 442 - Deed - no exact date but around the 15th of March 1858 - Samuel
H. Rountree and Martha J. his wife executed a deed to William W. Dunn
for $300 - the late Walter Dunn Sr. dec by his Will probated Jan Term
1851 devised to Cynthia Dunn his widow for her life 2 tracts viz - 1st
the home tract together with the Lewis C. Desmond and Elizabeth Desmond
land - adj Henry Tull's corner of the William Lovick land, Henry
Blackland, Wooten's Branch, Jericho Swamp, Daniel Desmond's land,
Poplar Branch, William Croom, the Croom home tract, Henry Tull's corner
of the land bought of William B. Rhem and wife, Reedy Branch, Shadrack
Loftin, John C. Washington - of 700 acres - Dunn's Will specified after
the death of his widow the land was the be divided between Ann J. Dunn,
William W. Dunn, Cynthia Ann Dunn, Theresa F. Dunn, Almira R. Dunn, and
Melissa H. Dunn, provided they all lived to be 21 or marry - should any
not live or marry then the rest to be divided equally between my
youngest 6 children - the sd Martha Ann J. Dunn intermarried with the
sd Samuel H. Rountree - the Rountrees were pd $300 by William W. Dunn
for their undivided interest.
P 211 - 19 Oct. 1858 - Whereas an Indenture of Marriage Settlement of
three parts was entered into and executed on 28 Dec 1853 between E. H.
Chadwick of Craven Co, and Theresa F. Dunn and Samuel H. Rountree of
Lenoir Co in view of a marriage between the sd Chadwick and sd Dunn and
the marriage was soleminized by law, and by deed of settlement all the
undivided interest of the sd Dunn in the lands and slaves of her father
Walter Dunn, dec by his last will and testament was conveyed in fee and
absolute property to the sd Samuel H. Rountree for the sole use of sd
Dunn during her marriage - the land of Walter Dunn has been partitioned
among the heirs - we Sd Rountree and E. H. Chadwick and Theresa
Chadwick for $5,000 paid to sd Theresa by John Tull - the tract NS
Neuse, part of Tower Hill, being Lot # 3 in the division of sd Walter
Dunn's estate - flat Branch, adj Lot # 2, to river bank then up the
river - 250 acres.
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