Deed, NC, Lincoln, WILLIAM & VIOLET WATSON to WILLIAM ADEAR 1771 THIS INDENTURE made this twenty second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy one. BETWEEN WILLIAM WATSON and VIOLET [WATSON], his wife, of the county of Tryon & province of North Carolina of the one part and WILLIAM ADEAR [ADAIR] of the Count & province aforesaid of the other part. WITNESSETH that they, the said WILLIAM WATSON and VIOLET, his wife, for and in consideration of the sum of seventy five pounds current money of the province of North Carolina, to them in hand paid by him, the said WILLIAM ADEAR [ADIER], at or before the ensealing and deliver of these presents, the receipt hereof is hereby acknowledged by them, the said WILLIAM WATSON and VIOLET, his wife, hath granted, bargained & sold, aliened & confirmed, and by these presents doth grant & sell, alien & confirm unto the said WILLIAM ADEAR, his heirs & assigns forever, all that messuage, tract or parcel of land, situate, lying & being in the county and province of North Carolina on the waters of Fishing [Creek] joining his own land, containing two hundred & sixty acres, be the same more or less. Beginning at a Black Oak, his own corner & runs with his own line S 80 W 126 poles to a Hickory, his other corner; thence S 4 E 16 poles to a White Oak, GILLESPIE’s corner; thence with his line N 30 E 260 poles to a White Oak; thence S 74 E 140 poles to a Black Oak; thence joining THOMAS SCOTT’s land S 200 poles to a Black Oak; thence to the beginning. THE SAME being now in possession of him, the said ADEAR, and all houses, buildings, edifices, gardens, orchards, trees, woods, underwoods, tithes commons, common of pasture, profits, advantages, hereditaments, ways, waters, water courses & appurtenances, whatsoever to the said land & premises above mentioned belonging or in anywise appertaining and also the reversion & reversions, remainder & remainders, rents and services of the said land & premises and every part & parcel thereof and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim & demand whatsoever of them, the said WILLIAM WATSON and VIOLET, his wife, of, in, and to the said tract of land & premises & every part thereof. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of land, all and singular the said premises above mentioned, and every part & parcel thereof, the quit rents to grow due and payable to our Sovereign Lord the King, his heirs and successors from the time of this seal only excepted and foreprized, with the appurtenances unto the said WILLIAM ADEAR, his heirs & assigns to the only proper use & behoof of him, the said WILLIAM ADEAR, his heirs & assigns forever. AND the said WILLIAM WATSON and VIOLET, his wife, their heirs & assigns, that the said WILLIAM ADEAR shall be peaceably and truly & lawfully possessed of said land above mentioned and all other the premises hereby bargained & sold & truly & lawfully seized, thereof, a good, absolute and indefeasible estate of inheritance in fee simple without any manner of condition, trust or limitation whatsoever to alter the change, charge or encumbrance the same & free & clear & freely & clearly exonerated & discharged of and from all rents & mortgages & encumbrances whatsoever, and that the said WILLIAM ADEAR hath full power & authority to sell and convey the said land abovesaid, him, his heirs & assigns according to the intent & meaning of these presents and the said of these presents and the said WILLIAM WATSON doth bind himself, his heirs & assigns with the said WILLIAM ADEAR, is heirs and assigns that tract or parcel of land aforesaid to him, his heirs & assigns shall and may from time to time and at Page 1 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Deed, NC, Lincoln, WILLIAM & VIOLET WATSON to WILLIAM ADEAR 1771 all times hereafter peaceably & quietly have, hold & enjoy the said land sold by the said WILLIAM WATSON and premises hereby granted and sold without any hindrance or molestation of, or to, him the said WILLIAM ADEAR, his heirs & assigns & of or from ever other person or persons whatsoever by, from or under him or any of his [heirs or assigns]. And, lastly, that the said WILLIAM WATSON bindeth himself, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns to make good the said tract of land unto the said WILLIAM ADEAR, to him, heirs in peaceable possession & premises hereby granted, bargained & sold to the said WILLIAM ADEAR, his heirs & assigns against all persons whatsoever, shall and will warrant and forever defend, by these presents. In witness whereof the said WILLIAM WATSON and VIOLET, his wife, have set their hands & seals the day & years above written. WILLIAM WATSON {seal} VIOLET [VIOLAT] WATSON {seal} Signed, sealed & delivered in presence of JOHN PRICE, jurat ROBERT ADAMS JOHN THOMSON Page 2 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Deed, NC, Lincoln, WILLIAM & VIOLET WATSON to WILLIAM ADEAR 1771 North Carolina Tryon County January Term 1771 This is to certify that the execution of the with deed was proved in open court and recorded in the clerk’s office according to law. Ordered to be registered EZEKIEL POLK, C. C. 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