ORANGE COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - James Laws etal to Harris Wilkerson
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James Laws etal to Harris Wilkerson
June 6, 1836
Orange County Deed Book 27, Page 497 & 498

  Know all Men by these presents that we Elizabeth N Leathers, James D
Laws & Charles D. Leathers all of the County of Haywood & State of
Tennessee are held & firmly bound unto Harris of the County of Orange &
State of North Carolina in the sum of one hundred and Seventy Nine
Dollars & fifty Eight Cents ($179 58/100) to which payment we bind
ourselves jointly & severly -
The conditions of the above bond are such that if the above ? Elizabeth
N Leathers, James P Laws & Charles D Leathers shall will & truly cause
Delia Jane Leathers when she arrives at Lawful age to convey to the
said Harris Wilkerson for the one fourth part of an undivided tract of
land containing Two hundred & ten acres more or less adjoining the
lands of Pumphrett Gooch Fielding Lewis & the said Harris Wilkerson &
others better known as the Leathers Cross roads, which one fourth part
is due her in the right of Legacy from her Father William Leathers
Estate, then the above obligation is to be void otherwise to remain in
full force & virtue             her
June the 6th AD 1836    Elizabeth X N Leathers (seal)
                                mark
witness                James P Laws (seal)
? Coleman              Charles H Leathers (seal)
W R ?

             State of Tennessee )
             Haywood County     )   June Term 1836
Personally appeared in Open Court Elizabeth N Leathers James P Laws &
Charles D Leathers who acknowledged that they Executed the within bond
for the purposes therein mentioned & ordered by the Court to be
Certified In Testimony whereof I Littleton Joyner Clerk of said County
Court have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of Said Court at
office in Brownsville this 7th day of June 1836 & 60 year of American
Independence
                                         Littleton Joyner Clerk


I Wm E Owen Chairman of the County Court of Haywood County in the State
of Tennessee do hereby certify that Littleton Joyner whose signature
appears to the above certificate as Clerk is the Clerk of the Court as
there stated that said certificate is in due form of Law & that full
faith & credit are due his official acts, given under my hand & seal
this the 7th day of June 1836
                                               Wm E Owen (seal)
Orange County August Term 1837
     This deed and the certificate thereon was exhibited in Open Court
& it appearing to the Court that the Execution thereto was duly proven
in Haywood County State of Tennessee on Motion it is ordered that said
deed & certificate be registered
                                                J Taylor C.C.