On January 27, 1818, Thomas H. Daves, sheriff of Craven County, deeded Charles Roach Senior about 100 acres in Craven County for sixty-two dollars. Charles Roach Senior had won a judgment of sixty dollars plus costs against Jesse Ginn, and the sheriff sold this land, which Jesse Ginn had inherited from George Ginn as his heir at law, at public sale to satisfy it. The land began at a water oak and ran to a pine at George Nelson’s corner, to Nelson’s corner, along a meadow to Patchet’s branch, and down the branch to the start. It was the land Hardy Gatten [Gatlin?] had sold to Ginn. The only neighbor named is George Nelson.
The only witness was J. G. Stanly. Daves acknowledged the deed at the March Term 1818 (J. G. Stanly, clerk), and it was registered in Book 3rd D, folio 195, by Jno. Green, register, through his deputy J. B. Green [?]. The writer’s own words are kept as written below.
Sheriff’s deed from Thomas H. Daves, sheriff of Craven County, to Charles Roach Senior, 100 acres of George Ginn’s land descended to Jesse Ginn, sold for debt – 1818
Transcription notes: spelling, capitalization and punctuation follow the original. Words in [square brackets] are editorial notes; [?] marks an uncertain reading and [illegible] marks words that could not be read.
Whereas heretofore there issued forth of the
Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions of the
County of Craven State of North Carolina
a writ of fieri facias bearing teste the second
Monday of December in the Year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen
directed to the Sheriff of Craven County com=
manding him of the lands and tenements
of George Ginn which had descended to Jesse
Ginn heir at law of said George Ginn
to cause to be made the sum of sixty dollars
with interest from 21st Decr 1816 which Charles Roach
Senior lately in said Court had recovered
against said Jesse Ginn for his Damages
and also the further sum of four pounds eighteen
& three pence for Costs of suit whereof the said
Jesse Ginn was convicted as appeared of record
which writ of fieri facias was afterwards and
before the day of the return thereof delivered
to Thomas H Daves Esquire he being then
Sheriff of Craven County. and Whereas
at the time of delivering the said writ to the
said Sheriff and at the teste thereof. and also at
the time of recovering the Judgment therein
mentioned the said Jesse Ginn was seized of
a certain tract of land in Craven County whereof
the said George Ginn was seized in fee at the
time of his death and which to the said
Jesse Ginn had descended as his heir at law
of the said George Ginn “that is to say” situate
in Craven County beginning at a water oak
running thence South forty eight degrees East
one hundred and forty five poles to a pine
George Nelson’s Corner. from thence to a stake
Nelson’s Corner then with a Meadow to Patchets
branch and with the branch to the beginning
containing by estimation one hundred acres be
the same more or less and being the same which
was conveyed by Hardy Gatten to said Ginn
And Whereas the said Thomas H Daves
being Sheriff of the County of Craven aforesaid
by virtue of and in obedience to the aforesaid
writ of fieri facias and by authority of his said
office afterwards and before the day of the
return of said writ. did seize and levy upon
the said tract or parcel of land herein before
bounded and described with its appurtenances
and having duly advertised the same forty days
sold the same at public vendue to Charles
Roach Senior of the County of Craven for the
sum of Sixty two Dollars being the highest
and best bidder.
Now know all men by these
presents that the said Thomas H Daves Sheriff
of Craven County aforesaid for and in consid=
eration of the said sum of sixty two Dollars
to him in hand paid by the said Charles
Roach Senior by virtue of and in obedience to
the aforesaid writ of fieri facias and by authority
of his said office hath bargained and sold
aliened set over and confirmed and by these
presents doth bargain sell alien set over and
confirm unto Charles Roach Senior his heirs
and assigns the said tract or parcel of land
herein before described with its appurtenances
and all the right title interest and estate
therein whereof the aforesaid George Ginn was
seized at the time of his death. To have
and to hold the same to the said Charles
Roach Senior his heirs and assigns forever
In Witness whereof the said Thomas
H Daves Sheriff of Craven County hath
hereunto set his hand and seal this 27th
day of January AD 1818.
Signed, sealed and
delivered in presence of }
J. G. Stanly
T. H. Daves Shff (Seal)
Craven County Court March Term AD 1818
Then was the due and legal execution of
the foregoing deed acknowledged by the grantor
in open Court Ordered that said Deed be
Registered. Attest J. G. Stanly C.C.
Recorded in the Registers office of Craven County in Book 3rd D Folio
195 &c. — attest Jno. Green Register
pr. J. B. Green [?] D. Regr
[Outside:]
Thomas H Daves
Sheriff of Craven
to
Charles Roach Snr
Deed
Pd 9/-
About the original
The deed is written on one folded sheet: the recitals and the grant on the first page and the left half of the second, the signature, the court’s acknowledgment and the registration on the right half of the second, and the docket on the outside.
The register’s deputy signed with a large flourish; his name is read as J. B. Green with a question mark. “Pd 9/-” on the outside appears to be the fee paid, nine shillings.
The capital S in “Senior” is formed in a way that can look like a J; it is read as Senior here because the same word is written plainly with a small s (“senior”) later in the deed and because the outside reads “Snr.”
The bounds are the same as those in the copy of “the Courses” of the deed from Hardy Gatten to Jesse Ginn in this folder, which was made for Charles Roach Esq. This deed explains why Roach wanted that copy: Charles Roach Senior had won a judgment against Jesse Ginn, and the sheriff sold this land, which Jesse Ginn had inherited from George Ginn, to satisfy it. The deed says Jesse Ginn was George Ginn’s heir at law but does not say how they were related. The only neighbor named is George Nelson.
Source: Sheriff’s deed, Thomas H. Daves to Charles Roach Senior, 27 January 1818. Roach Family Papers (#346), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, Box 1, Folder c (Land Records, 1728–1886). Collection guide. Digitized folder: ECU Digital Collections, 0346-b1-fc.
Images courtesy of East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. View this item in ECU Digital Collections.
Part of the Roach Family Papers collection on East Carolina Roots.
