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From: "Lura" <>
Subject: Re: Land transaction
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 22:41:38 -0500
References: <3A513CB0.A08DB089@triad.rr.com>


Charlie,

Have you checked to see if Timothy C MURPHY later sold the land,
willed it to someone, or it was in the settlement of his estate?
If Jesse R HENDERSON did not complete making any payments on the
land, it is possible the ownership returned to MURPHY.

Just a thought!
Lura

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat/Chas" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 9:28 PM
Subject: Land transaction


> I have a little Duplin Co mystery that keeps
> bugging me.
> On 6 Sep 1854, my gggrandfather, Jesse R HENDERSON
>
> purchased a 151a parcel in Duplin Co from Timothy
> C MURPHY.
> Checking deed and court records, I can find no
> further disposition of
> this property. Jesse died in the CSA hospital at
> Gordonsville, VA,
> in 1863, leaving wife Mary Amanda BUTLER HENDERSON
>
> and 4 children. The property, if still in the
> family's possession, should
> have gone to Mary Amanda, who by 1870, had moved
> to
> Cumberland Co. Raleigh and Kenansville research
> has turned up no
> clue as to the disposition of this property.
> Anyone have any suggestions,
> possibly of more obscure records, where a transfer
> might have been
> recorded?
> Charlie Weaver, Winston-Salem
>


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