Deed, NC, Iredell, WILLIAM BRYSON to JAMES PORTER, 1789

THIS INDENTURE made this twenty second day of November in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and eighty eight.

BETWEEN WILLIAM BRYSON Sr. of the county of Rowan and state of North Carolina of
the one part, and JAMES PORTER of the county and state aforesaid of the other part.

WITNESSETH that the said WILLIAM BRYSON Sr. and in consideration of the sum of
twenty pounds in hand and before the sealing and delivering of these presents the
receipt whereof the said WILLIAM BRYSON doth hereby acknowledge he, the said
WILLIAM BRYSON, hath granted, bargained & sold aliened and confirmed and by these
presents doth grant, bargain & sell, alien and confirm unto the said JAMES PORTER
his heirs and assigns forever all my right, title, interest, claim and demand of,
in & to a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the county and state
aforesaid on both sides of Back Creek a branch of Catawba River, the plantation
whereon the said WILLIAM BRYSON now lives on.

    Beginning at a Post Oak, JAMES PORTER’s corner; thence W 32 chains to a
    White Oak & Black Oak; thence S 83½ chains to a Red Oak; thence E 32
    chains to a white oak, JAMES PORTER’s other corner; thence to the
    beginning.

Containing in the whole two hundred and fifty four acres, more or less.

Being part of a tract of land granted to ALEXANDER OSBORN, Esq. The ninth day
of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty one,
and afterwards made over by the said ALEXANDER OSBORN to the said WILLIAM
BRYSON by lease & release dated the second day of October Anno Domini 1763.

TOGETHER with all woods, ways, waters, buildings, fences, orchards, pastures,
profits, commodities, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the same
belonging or in anywise appertaining.

TO HAVE AND HOLD the said messuages or tenements and all and singular the
premises above mentioned with the appurtenances unto the said JAMES PORTER,
his heirs and assigns forever.

AND the said WILLIAM BRYSON, for himself, his heirs and assigns, the said
parcel of land and plantation will warrant and forever defend from the just
and lawful claim of him, the said WILLIAM BRYSON, his heirs or assigns or any
other person or persons whatsoever laying any just and lawful claim thereto
by, from or under him or by any of his or their means or procurement, he the
said JAMES PORTER yielding and paying such sum or sums of money as our general
assembly for the time being shall please to direct ad forever after.

IN WITNESS whereof he, the said WILLIAM BRYSON Sr. hath hereunto set his hand
and affixed his seal the day and year first above written in the twelfth year
of American Independence.

WILLIAM BRYSON {seal, his mark}

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of us

JAMES KER [KERR], Jurat
LAMBERT CLAYTON



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              Deed, NC, Iredell, WILLIAM BRYSON to JAMES PORTER, 1789

State of North Carolina
Iredell County

September Session, 1789

The within deed was duly recorded in my offices, proven in open court by JAMES
KER, ordered to be registered.

ABNER SHARPE, CC




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