[Transcribed by Peggy Reece Bruckner - June 16, 2008.  All spelling, grammar and punctuation as found.  This is a Clerk's copy handwritten in the County Deed Book and is written as one continuous paragraph.  Spaces have been added  to improve readability. Transcriber's comments are contained in square brackets [ ]. Comments contained in curved-brackets ( ) are as shown in original document. This deed represents the final settlement of the combined Intestate Estates of John R. & Andrew S. Knox, brothers of R. J. W. Knox, in accordance with the instructions contained in their father, John Knox's 1853 LWT.  Most of the heirs-at-law are listed in the first paragraph. The children of Margaret (Knox) Alexander, and Mary B. (Knox) Smith, are documented in other court papers.]

 

 

 

Mecklenburg County, NC Deeds

Book 8 [Second Series], page 238

 

[30 Dec 1872] J. M. Wilson, as Commissioner of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg being duly appointed and empowered in the behalf by decree of said Superior Court in a Suit for partition pending herein R. J. W. Knox, plaintiff and P. J. Knox and the heirs of B. B. & Mary B. Smith and the heirs of Alfred & Margaret Alexander (names not known) defendants in pursuance of a Sale by Public Auction, and in consider of the sum of Three Thousand Dollars paid as Compensation as aforesaid by R. J. W. Knox (who was the last and highest bidder at the sale for the Estate hereafter described) the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do hereby grant bargain sell and convey unto the said R. J. W. Knox his heirs and assigns forever a parcel of land situated in Mecklenburg County bounded as follows viz. [property description follows]

 

Beginning at a Rock on of D. A. CALDWELL’s [1] Corner and runs with his line N98 W96 poles to a Maple at Mouth of a Ditch, thence N1 W28 poles to a Maple, thence N52 E10 poles to a Maple bush, thence S82 W65 poles to a Water Oak, thence N55 E32 to a Hickory, thence N30 E46 poles to a Maple, thence N55 E32 poles to a Hickory, thence N88 E45 poles to a Stake, thence N59 E72 poles to a Dogwood, thence S28 E219 poles to a Stone (was Stone) on GREAT ROAD [Old Statesville Road], thence S26 E80 poles to a Hickory on SMITHs line, thence with his line S55 W30 poles to a Stake.  Thence N51 W 30 poles to a Stake, thence S58 W29 poles to a W. O. [Water Oak], thence S28 W79 poles to a Pine (dead), thence S80 W7 poles to a B. [Black Oak], thence N39 W66 poles to a P. [Post] Oak, thence S89 W75 poles to a P. [Post] Oak D. A. CALDWELL's corner, thence N28 E90 poles to a Stake, thence N28 E70 poles to a Stake, thence N31 W48 poles to the beginning containing about Four Hundred and Twenty four acres.

 

To Have and To Hold Said parcel of Land with the privileges and appurtenances thereof to the Said R. J. W. Knox, his heirs and assigns, to his and their use & behalf [?] forever.  In Witness whereof I the said J. M. Wilson as Commissioner of the Superior Court as aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and seal this 30th day of December AD 1872.

 

J. M. Wilson, Comr (Seal)

Test. E. A. Osborne

 

 

State of North Carolina }     Probate Court

Mecklenburg County     }

 

                           Be it remembered, that on this 30th day of Dec 1872 personally appeared before this Court J. M. Wilson Comr. and acknowledges the due execution by him of the foregoing and assessed[?] deed to R. J. W. Knox.  Therefore let said deed with this Certificate be Registered.  Recorded in my office the 2nd day of Jan 1873.  E. A. Osborne, CSC to PJ