Amanuensis Monday~Deed of Gift-George Dry, Sr. to Eve Dry, his daughter

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 Deed of Gift from George Dry, Sr. of Kentucky to his Daughter Eve Dry of North Carolina.




George Dry, Sr. of Lincoln County, Kentucky Makes a Gift of Property Located in Cabarrus County to his daughter Eve Dry.
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Know all men by these presents that I, George Dry, Senior of Lincoln County, State of Kentucky, in consideration of the natural love + affection which I have + bare unto my beloved daughter Eve Dry in the County of Cabarrus + State of North Carolina + also for divers causes + consideration Me the said George Dry, Sen. have unto moving have given Granted Bargained + Confirmed + by these presents do give grant Bargain + Confirm unto the said Eve Dry all + singular My land, goods, Chattel, personal Estate whatsoever in whose hands or possession it May be in within the State of North Carolina to have + to enjoy all + singular the Said Lands goods + chattel + personal Estate aforesaid unto Eve Dry her heirs and assigns forever to her own proper use +behalf  and I the Sd. George Dry from Me + My heirs forever all + singular the  Lands goods + Chattels which Catherine Dry my wife had in Pofsefsion in the State of N. Carolina at her death in Witness whereof the Sd. George Dry hath hereunto set his hand + Seal this thirteenth day of November 1804. Signed, Seal and delivered in the presence of
Robert Burton}                                                            George Dry {seal}
Mathias Phifer}
Thomas Williams}     Sefsion illegible in German Language
The Common Wealth of Kentucky  Lincoln County on the 13 day of December 1804 the within deed of Gift was proved to be the act + deed of the above george Dry Senior by the oath of Robt. Burton Mathias Phifer + Thos. Williams Subscribing witnefses  thereto + admitted to record.
                 Witnefs Thomas Montgomery Col. C. Clk.

State of No. Carolina}        January Sefssion 1805
Cabarrus County}
It is hereby Certified that the within deed was duly Proved in open Court by the oath of Mathias Phifer
Recorded + ordered to be registered Test, John Simianer C. Clk.


The Deed above states that Eve Dry is the Daughter of George Dry, Sr and his wife Catherine.
I, George Dry, Senior of Lincoln County, State of Kentucky, in consideration of the natural love + affection which I have + bare unto my beloved daughter Eve Dry in the County of Cabarrus + State of North Carolina
and
that the Lands goods + Chattels which Catherine Dry my wife had in Pofsefsion in the State of N. Carolina at her death

The Deed shows that George Dry, Sr. lived in Lincoln County, Kentucky and  was alive and well on the 13th day of November 1804 when he signed this deed giving his land in Cabarrus County, NC to his Daughter Eve Dry a Deed of Gift.

Yet, there is much conflicting information about these two in on-line trees.

For instance in this tree we can see that George died 9 years before he signed the above deed.



A Kentucky Tax list shows that George Dry, Sr. was alive and well in 1800.



The above tree also shows that Eve was born in 1774 when her mother was 54 years old.

Another tree show that Eve was born in 1757, seventeen years earlier than the above tree.



And lastly, there are trees that has no daughters born to Catherine Bechtel and George Dry, Sr..



These inconsistencies show that research on this family has been very lax and fragmented. It’s very obvious that George Dry, Sr. passed away sometime after 13 November 1804. His exact date of death is still unknown. Research on Eve Dry is also problematic; there are no known reliable source citations for her birth, marriage or death.  

My research is incomplete and at the present time I am not exactly sure how George Dry, Sr. is related.








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NOTE:  + sign = and
[The ampersand (&) is used throughout this deed in place of the word “and”. Blogger does not handle the ampersand well; so rather than replace it with the word “and” I have use the plus (+) sign].
[1] North Carolina, Deed Book: 5, page 197, George Dry, Sr. to Eve Dry, Deed of Gift; Register of Deeds, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina.