Amanuensis Monday~John Wiley Huneycutt to Demsey Huneycutt Senr.

 
Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.

His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Today’s subject is a Stanly County Land Deed John Wiley Demsey Huneycutt Junr. to Demsey Huneycutt Senr..[1]




Stanly County, NC
Deed Book 3, pages 358-359
John Wiley Demsey Huneycutt Junr. to Demsey Huneycutt Senr.
This indenture made the 13^th day of April in the year of our Lord 1844 between Demsey John Wiley Huneycutt of the state of N. Carolina & County of Stanly of the one part and Demsey Huneycutt Senr of the other part Witnefseth that for & in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars in hand paid before the sighning <sic> & sealing of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby fully acknowledged by him the said Dempsey Huneycutt hath given granted & sold and by these presents doth give grant bargain & sell unto the said John Wiley Huneycutt his heirs & assigns forever all that piece parcel plantation or tract of land and improvement situated in the county of Stanly on East prong of Island creek joining Samuel Hinson South east line Beginning at a stake at the Allenton road leading to Charlotte on John Peeks line running with his line north west 175 poles to a stake thence south East course 180 poles to a stake thence south 175 poles to a stake on the south side of the Allenton road thence a west course 175 poles to a stake thence 50 poles to the beginning containing 200 acres be the same more or lefs also with all ways waters water courses and every appurtenances thereunto belonging to have & to hold the said land and tenements unto him the said John Wilie Huneycutt his heirs exrs & adms & afsigns forever to the only – and behoof of the said John W. Huneycutt and the said Demsey Huneycutt himself and each of his heirs & afsigns doth forever warrant & defend – right and title of the land clear and free from him the said Demsey Huneycuttt his heirs & afsigns unto John W. Huneycutt his heirs forever whereunto I the said Dempsey Huneycutt hath hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal the day & year first above written.
In the presence of us
L. K. Huneycutt.                                               Dempsey Huneycutt {seal}
Adam W. Huneycutt
North Carolina} June 26^th 1854
Stanly County} Then the execution of this deed was proved on the oath of Levi K. Huneycutt therefore let it be registered.                           R. Harris, Clk
Registered 28^th June 1854                                              S. S. Stone, Regr.

This is the last known document that I have found for Dempsey Huneycutt, Sr.; it proves that on 13 April 1844 that he was still alive. Many family trees shows that he died in 1850. This date is suspect because if he had died in 1849 he would have been listed in the 1850 Mortality Census. His absence from the Mortality census suggest that he died between this deed (13 April 1844) and 31 December 1848.  





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[1] North Carolina, Deed Book: Deed Book 3, pages 358-359, John Wiley  Demsey Huneycutt Junr.  To Demsey Huneycutt Senr.; Register of Deeds, Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina.