Amanuensis Monday~1790 Land Deed~Andrew Dry to Martin Dry

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 1790 Mecklenburg County Land Deed between Andrew Dry and Martin Dry. ¹


Transcription:

This indenture made the 22nd day of October in the year of Our Lord 1790 between Andrew Dry of the County of Mecklenburg  Rowan and state of North Carolina of the one part and Martin Dry of the County of Mecklenburg and State aforesaid of the other part witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of ten pounds of good and lawful money of said State to me in hand paid by the said Martin Dry to the said Andrew Dry in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby fully acknowledged to him, the said Andrew Dry hath given granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth give grant bargain and sell unto the said Martin Dry his heirs and assigns a certain piece or parcel of land lying and being in the County and State aforesaid containing one hundred fifty acres lying on the east side of Dutch Buffalo Creek on both sides of the Long Run Beginning at a post oak near Charles Drys old line running thence So 26 degrees West 6 poles to a small Gum in said Run, thence with or near said line South 70 degrees West 17 poles to a Red Oak thence S 14 poles crossing the Woolfs___Branch to a stake, thence N 17 poles Crossing said branch to a B. O. grub, thence the same course N 60 poles to a stake, thence W 6 poles crossing said Long Run to a stake, thence to the Beginning. By a State Grant dated December 2nd and in the IX Year of the Independence and in the year of our Lord 1787 together with all woods mines minerals Hereditaments and appurtenances the said land belonging to have and to hold the aforesaid 150 acres of land with all rights privileges and improvements to the same in any wise belonging to him the said Martin Dry his heirs and assigns forever and the said Andrew Dry for himself and his heirs and assigns doth hereby covenant and agree to and with the said Martin Dry that he the said Martin Dry his heirs and assigns shall and may forever hereafter peaceably and quietly have hold occupy possess and enjoy the aforesaid granted lands and premises without the debt of notification of any wise whatsoever and free and clear from all manner of incumbrancers whatsoever and the said Andrew Dry doth oblige himself and his heirs to warrant and defend the aforesaid granted lands and premises to him the said Martin Dry his heirs and assigns forever against the claims of all persons whatsoever. In Witness whereof the party has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first written.
                                                                              Andrew Dry {Seal}
Signed Sealed and Delivered in presence of
Daniel Jarret
{another witness illegible}

Mecklenburg County, Oct. Sep. 1790
Then was the execution of the within deed proven in open Court by Daniel Jarret a witnefs thereto and order to be registered.
Sept. ?? Alexander, Clerk

Andrew Dry is my 4th Great Grand Uncle.

Martin Dry is my 4th Great Grandfather.


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Deed Book 13, page 831, Mecklenburg County, NC
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89DX-Q9X3?cat=168633

It's Family Time: The Two Marriages of Dorinda Adair

Dorinda Adair was the daughter of Zadock Adair and Sarah Kelly. I am not an “Adair” surname researcher but my limited research shows she had 8 siblings; 3 sisters and 5 brothers.

The purpose of this articles is to document the  two marriages of Dorinda Adair. Her marriage to Epps Rivers Brown (2nd marriage ) is well documented both in Census and in Land Deeds.

In Lauderdale County, Mississippi Deed Book “D” pages 17 & 18, we have a “Deed of Gift” – Zadock Adair to his Daughter Dorinda Brown, LDS FHL Film # 899134.

Partial Transcription of text

Zadock ADAIR, Kemp Co, MS "natural love and affection...unto my daughter Dorinda BROWN, wife of ER BROWN, for $1: negro woman, Jane a slave age 23, also her 2 children, Mariah age 3 and Dempsey age 16 months... Signed Zadock ADAIR. Witness: James Ray, Clerk.
[ Deed Book "D" Page 17 and 18, Dated 2 Mar 1844]

By this Land Deed we know that Dorinda Adair was married to Epps Rivers Brown before 2 March 1844. Dorinda and Epps Rivers’ first born child was a daughter, Sarah O. Brown born  19 April 1843. This birth suggest a possible 1842 Marriage year for Dorinda and Epps Rivers Brown. 

Epps and Dorinda eventually moved from Lauderdale County, Mississippi to Union County, Arkansas. When his dad, John H. Brown died in 1855 his Mother Sarah Rivers Brown moved in with Epps and Dorinda in Union County, Arkansas.

All of this is well documented and easy to find. What is not well documented and easy to find is the first (1st) marriage that occurred on 17 December 1836 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.

MARRIED--
----------In Lauderdale County (MS) on 17th ult [December 17 1836]
Mr. John R LEATH, Merchant of Daleville to Miss Dorinda ADAIR.

Voice of Sumter, January 3, 1837, Third page: First column: 7th paragraph.

It is not known if Dorinda and Mr. John Leath were divorced or if something suddenly happened to Mr. Leath and he passed away. Regardless sometime in 1842, Dorinda married Epps Rivers Brown and became the mother of a child in April 1843 through this union.

Dorinda Adair Brown died in Union County, Arkansas sometime after the 1880 Census was enumerated. The burial place of Epps Rivers Brown, His Mother Sarah Rivers Brown and wife Dorinda Adair Brown is not known but they all passed away in Union County, Arkansas.

Dorinda Adair was the wife of my 1st Cousin 5 times removed, Epps Rivers Brown. .


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My thanks to Paula Carter Davis for obtaining a copy of this marriage notice from the old bound version of this newspaper from the Sumter Co, AL courthouse back in July 2013. 
[1] Lauderdale County, Mississippi Deed Book D Page 17 & 18, Dated 2 Mar 1844
[2] Voice of Sumter, January 3, 1837, Third page: First column: 7th paragraph.