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| John Jinkins, Administrator, to Charles J. Rountree |
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John Jinkins to Charles J. Rountree Bill of Sale
State of North Carolina}
Pitt County}
Whereas Benjamin F. Jinkinson [sic] died on the eleventh day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and being intestate to a considerable estate which descended to him by the death of his sister, Mary McKenna, and also his father, Charles Jinkins, Esquire, deceased lately of the county aforesaid, whereupon administration was granted to John Jinkins, and in order that an equal distribution should be made between the lawful representatives of the said Benjamin F. Jinkins, deceased, at February Term 1828, the Worshipful Court of Plea and Quarter Sessions held for the county aforesaid, did pass an order directing the said John Jinkins, Administrator of the said F. Jinkins, deceased, to sell the following negro slaves (to wit) Negro woman Sid & her children Mary & Serena Jane, and negro girl Hollon & negro boy Charles, and upon the petition of John Jinkinson [sic], William McKenna, Charles C. Jinkins & Jonathan W. L. Jinkins, in order therefore that acts of said petitioners should receive their proportionable part of said negroes, I, the said John Jinkins, Administrator of the said Benjamin F. Jinkins, deceased, did duly advertise the same and on the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand eight hundred & twenty-eight, agreeable to law did offer for sale negro woman Sid & her child Serena Jane. Charles J. Rountree offered on the day of sale this three hundred and fifty-eight dollars for said woman & child, he being the last & highest bidder, thereon the said woman & child was struck off to him at the aforesaid sum of three hundred and fifty-eight. Now know all men by these presents that I, the said John Jinkins, Administrator of the said Benjamin F. Jinkins, deceased, for & in consideration of the three hundred and fifty-eight dollars to me in hand paid by the said Charles J. Rountree, his receipt I do hereby acknowledge and by these presents have bargains, sold & delivered unto the said Charles J. Rountree, his heirs & assigns the before mentioned negro woman Sid & her child Serena Jane, Sid aged about twenty-two years, her child aged about three months, and I, the aforesaid John Jinkins, as well for myself as for the before mentioned heirs, will warrant and forever defend the said negroes & their increase to the said Charles J. Rountree, his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claim or claims of any person or persons whatsoever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this the 3rd day of March 1828.
State of North Carolina}
Pitt County}
Whereas Benjamin F. Jinkinson [sic] died on the eleventh day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and being intestate to a considerable estate which descended to him by the death of his sister, Mary McKenna, and also his father, Charles Jinkins, Esquire, deceased lately of the county aforesaid, whereupon administration was granted to John Jinkins, and in order that an equal distribution should be made between the lawful representatives of the said Benjamin F. Jinkins, deceased, at February Term 1828, the Worshipful Court of Plea and Quarter Sessions held for the county aforesaid, did pass an order directing the said John Jinkins, Administrator of the said F. Jinkins, deceased, to sell the following negro slaves (to wit) Negro woman Sid & her children Mary & Serena Jane, and negro girl Hollon & negro boy Charles, and upon the petition of John Jinkinson [sic], William McKenna, Charles C. Jinkins & Jonathan W. L. Jinkins, in order therefore that acts of said petitioners should receive their proportionable part of said negroes, I, the said John Jinkins, Administrator of the said Benjamin F. Jinkins, deceased, did duly advertise the same and on the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand eight hundred & twenty-eight, agreeable to law did offer for sale negro woman Sid & her child Serena Jane. Charles J. Rountree offered on the day of sale this three hundred and fifty-eight dollars for said woman & child, he being the last & highest bidder, thereon the said woman & child was struck off to him at the aforesaid sum of three hundred and fifty-eight. Now know all men by these presents that I, the said John Jinkins, Administrator of the said Benjamin F. Jinkins, deceased, for & in consideration of the three hundred and fifty-eight dollars to me in hand paid by the said Charles J. Rountree, his receipt I do hereby acknowledge and by these presents have bargains, sold & delivered unto the said Charles J. Rountree, his heirs & assigns the before mentioned negro woman Sid & her child Serena Jane, Sid aged about twenty-two years, her child aged about three months, and I, the aforesaid John Jinkins, as well for myself as for the before mentioned heirs, will warrant and forever defend the said negroes & their increase to the said Charles J. Rountree, his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claim or claims of any person or persons whatsoever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this the 3rd day of March 1828.
John Jinkins [seal mark]
Witness
Archibald Parker
May Session 1828
Then the above deed of sale from John Jinkins to Charles J. Rountree for negro woman & child was exhibited into open court and acknowledged in due form of law by John Jinkins to be his act and deed, ordered to be registered.
Attest.
James Sheppard, Clerk Source: Pitt County Deed Book EE. Page 237
Witness
Archibald Parker
May Session 1828
Then the above deed of sale from John Jinkins to Charles J. Rountree for negro woman & child was exhibited into open court and acknowledged in due form of law by John Jinkins to be his act and deed, ordered to be registered.
Attest.
James Sheppard, Clerk Source: Pitt County Deed Book EE. Page 237
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