Item Description: Land indenture in Orange County, North Carolina, dated 23 September 1863, from an Edmund Strudwick and William Augustus Graham to a Charles Freeland.
Item Citation: Folder 205, William Graham Papers, #00285, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Item Transcription:
This indenture, Made the 23rd day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three between Edmund Strudwick and Mr. A. Graham ^Josiah Turner of the County of Orange in the State of North Carolina on the one part, and Charles J. Freeland of the County of Orange and State of aforesaid of the other part, WITNESSETH, That the said Edmund Strudwick and Mr. A. Graham for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar to ? in hand paid by the said Charles L. Freeland the receipt whereof the said E. Strudwick and Mr. A. Graham doth hereby acknowledge, Hath give, granted, bargained and sold, aliened and confirmed, and, by these presents, Doth give, grant, bargain and sell, alien and confirm unto the said Charles L. Freeland his _ heirs and assigns for ever, all not fort of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Orange and Town of Hillsborough numbered in the year of said town as LT No 237.
and also all the words, ways, water and water courses, and all and every the appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits, of the aforesaid lands and premises, and every part thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, claim, property and demand whatsoever, of the said Edmund Strudwick and Mr. A Graham ^ Josiah Turner? of, in and to the lands and presmises hereby granted: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforesaid lands and premises, with the appurtenances, unto the said Charles L. Freeland his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use and behoof of Charles L. Freeland his _ heirs and assigns forever: and the said Edmund Strudwick and Mr. A. Graham for themselves and their heirs, the aforesaid lands and premises, and every part thereof, against themselves and their heirs and against the claim or claims of all and every other person or persons whatsoever, to the said Charles L. Freeland his heirs and assigns, shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the said Edward Strudwick and Mr. A . Graham ^Josiah Turner hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals the day and year first above written.
SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED, E. Strudwick
IN THE PRESENCE OF Will. A. Graham
JOHN LARNS ?
