Deed, NC, Johnston, Sheriff JOHN BRYAN Sr to JOHN BRYAN Jr, 1793

THIS INDENTURE made this 24th day of August in the year of Our Lord 1793.

BETWEEN JOHN BRYAN Sr. the High Sheriff of Johnston County in the state of North
Carolina of the one part and JOHN BRYAN Jr. of the same place of the other part.

WITNESSETH that whereas JEREMIAH POWELL Esquire, late the high Sheriff of the
county aforesaid, by virtue of a writ of fieri facias to him directed from the
county court of Wayne, wherein WILLIAM HENRY, assignee of HENRY MONTFORD, was the
plaintiff and the executor of ALEXANDER GRAY, the defendant, did levy on a certain
lot of ground in the town of Smithfield known and distinguished in the place of
said town by Lot No. 30 as the property of the said ALEXANDER GRAY, deceased, and
afterwards did expose the same to public sale when JOHN BRYAN Jr. became the
purchaser for the sum of _____ which was the highest price that was bid for the
same and it being suggested to me that the said JEREMIAH POWELL died shortly after
the said sale without having executed a deed for the said lot to the said JOHN
BRYAN Jr.

NOW THIS INDENTURE further witnesseth that I, the said JOHN BRYAN Sr., High Sheriff
of the county aforesaid, do, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by
the law of the state of North Carolina as the imminent successor of the said
JEREMIAH POWELL, deceased, grant, bargain, sell, and deliver unto the said JOHN
BRYAN Jr., his heirs and assigns forever the foresaid Lot No. 30 to hold to the
said JOHN BRYAN Jr., his heirs is an assigns forever.

IN WITNESS whereof I, the said JOHN BRYAN, as the Sheriff of the county aforesaid,
have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.

JOHN BRYAN, Sheriff {seal}

Witness

WILLIAM SASSIN




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Johnston County
August term 1793

Then was the execution of this deed acknowledged an open court by JOHN BRYAN Sr.,
Sheriff, and ordered to be registered.

R. Sanders, C. C.




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