Wayne County Register of Deeds, Goldsboro, NC - 420 1/2 acres

This Indenture made & entered into on this the 17th day of November A.D. 1860 between George W. Collier of the County of Wayne & State of North Carolina of the one part & Newman Potts of the same County & State of the other part.

Witnesseth that the said George W. Collier, for & in consideration of the sum of seventeen hundred & eighty three dollars & twenty five cents ($1783.25) to him in hand paid by the said Newman Potts at the time of executing these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted, bargained, sold, conveyed, aliened & confirmed, and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, convey, alien & confirm unto the said Newman Potts, his heirs & assigns, a certain tract or parcel of land, situated, lying & being in the County & State aforesaid on the south side of Neuse River & on the east side of Wilmington & Weldon Rail Road, adjoining the land of the said George W. Collier, Nathan Daniel, Nick Smith, James A. Fields & others, & bounded as follows,

Beginning at a bridge across a ditch, said Collier and Daniels corner & runs with said Daniels line N 63 E 217 poles to a pine, said Daniels corner, then with said Daniels line N 17 ½ E 162 poles to a bog on the Poplar Branch, another of said Daniel corners, near the mouth of the school house Spring branch, then up said school house spring branch, as it meanders to a pine on the Newbern Road, said Colliers corner, then south with said road as it runs to a pine at the corner of Nick Smiths fence, said Smiths corner, then with said Smiths line W 83 poles to a stake and other of said Smiths corners, then S 2 W 150 poles to a poplar on the Marsh Branch, Jas. A. Fields corner, then with said Fields line N 74 W 78 poles to a pine, then N 89 W 18 poles to a dead pine, another of said Fields corners, then with said Fields line S 58 W 141 ½ poles to a stake another of said Fields corners, thence to the beginning - containing four hundred & twenty & a half acres, be the same more or less.

To have & to hold the aforesaid land & premises, together with all & singular the privileges & appurtenances therein belonging, to him the said Newman Potts, his heirs, executors, administrators & assigns forever. And the said G.W. Collier does hereby forever warrant & defend the right-still of the said lands against the lawful claim or claims of any & all persons whatsoever.

In testimony whereof, I the said G.W. Collier hath hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal, the day & date above written.
G.W. Collier {Seal}
Signed in the presence of us
J.E. Whitfield
William J. Hall

Wayne County Oct 3rd 1862
The due execution of the foregoing deed was this day proved before me by the oath of Jno. E. Whitfield the subscribing witness. Let it be registered.
L.H. Denmark Clerk

(Tax 57 pd by N Potts)