>Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:01:44 -0800 >To: NCBertie List >From: Cathy Farris <cfarris@pacific.net> >Subject: Robert ELLIS to Phillip SMITH 1739 F122 > >Dear Group, > >I am interested in knowing more about both men, Robert ELLIS and Phillip >SMITH, anyone know them? I need to know if Aaron ELLIS and Moses ELLIS are >related to the above Robert ELLIS and if Silas SMITH is family to Phillip >SMITH. > >Thanks, Cathy Farris > >To all people to whome these presents shall come I Robert ELLIS of Bertie >County in North Carolina send Greeting in our Lord God Everlasting now >Know ye that I Robert ELLIS for and in consideration of the sum of Twenty >five pounds Currency of Virginia to me in hand before the Ensealing hereof >will and truly paid by Phillip SMITH the receipt whereof I do hereby >acknowledge and my self therewith fully satisfied and content and thereof >and of every part and parcel thereof do exonerate, acquitt and discharge >the said Phillip SMITH his heirs Execs forever by these presents Have >given, granted, bargained, sold, aliened, conveyed and confirmed unto him >the said Phillip SMITH, his heirs and assigns forever, one messuage or >Tract of Land containing >three hundred acres of land be the same more or less scituate lying and >being in Bertie County Between Emanuel ROGERS and Phillip SMITHs land, > Late John GRAYS Land beginning at a maple on the ___side, > Phillp SMITHs corner tree so with his lines to the center of three white > oaks, > another of the said SMITHS corner, so to another corner white oak > dividing the said ELLIS and the heirs of Robert ELLIS dec'd so with a > line of marked trees in and by a small drean to the corner field of the > said ELLIS and Robt dec'd and through the sd field and ___ to a corner > pine thence > to a corner red oak, Emanuel ROGERS then with his line to the river > thence up the river to the first station where it begun. >To have and to hold forever the said granted and bargained premise with >all the appurtenances, privileges and commodities to the same belonging or >in anywise appertaining with all houses, orchards, clear grounds, woodland >grounds, pasture grounds, swamp pocoson water and water courses and all >other liberties therein and thereon contained to him the said Phillip >SMITH heir heirs and assigns forever to his and heirs only proper use, >benefit and behoof forever and I the said Robt ELLIS for me, my heirs, >Exec', adms do covenant, promise and grant to and with the said Phillip >sMITH his heirs and assigns that before the ensealing hereof I am the true >sole and lawfull owner of the above bargained premises and am lawfully >seized and possessed of the same in mine own proper right as a good, >perfect and absolute Estate of Inheritance in fee simple and have in my >self good right, full power and lawfull authority to grant, bargain, sell, >convey and confirm the said bargained premises in manner as above said and >that the said Phillip SMITH, his heirs and assigns shall and may from time >to time and at all times hereafter by force and virtue of these presents >lawfully, peaceable and quietly Have, use, occupy, possess and enjoy the >said demised and bargained land and premises with all the appurtenances >free and clear and free and clear and freely and clearly acquitted, >exonerated and discharged of from all and all manner of former grants and >other grants, gifts, bargains, sales, leases, mortgages, wills, entails, , >joyners, dowries, judgments, executions, incumbrances and extents. >Furthermore I the said Robert ELLIS for my self my heirs, exec, adms do >covenant and engage the above demised premises to him the said Phillip >SMITH his heirs and assigns against the lawfull claims and demands of any >person and persons whatsoever forever, hereafter to warrant, secure and >defend the sale of the same. > >In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this ninth day of >February in the year of Our Lord 1740: Robert ELLIS his mark and seal > >Signed Sealed and delivered in presence and sight of us_ >Robert HARRIS, Jurat, John WILLEY, John MOOR > >Bertie County ye February court 1739 The above deed of sale was duly >proved in open court by the oath of Robert HARRIS one of the subscribing >witnesses thereto ___ ____motion is ordered to be registered.