Bill of Sale (Irvine/Wilkins)

On July 6, 1811, Paul Hamilton Wilkins, planter of Liberty County, used two unnamed “negroes,” valued at $700 to pay a piece of land previously owned by Robert Carnibe Baillie. According to the deed of conveyance, Baillie, of Liberty County, had died intestate and in possession of a 979-acre tract of land granted in four tracts in the Midway District, bounded at the time of survey on the north by Major Maxwell’s land, east by the marshes of the Midway River, Baillie’s Island and lands granted to Nathaniel Way, south by the parsonage land, and west by the land of John Goulding. One half of the land had descended to Ann E. Irvine, as Baillie’s sister, along with her sister Jane Darling (Jane Low) as tenants in common, and the other half to Elizabeth and Euphemia Darling, daughter of Jane Darling (Jane Low) as tenants in common. The parties involved had obtained a writ of partition, according to which Charles Irvine, for his wife Elizabeth Darling, took possession of lots 2 and 4. Their marriage settlement stipulated the the land should be inherited by their children, and it came to the possession of John R. Irvine and Melissa Irvine; Melissa conveyed to John her title to it. Thus John R. Irvine sold lots 2 and 4 to Paul Hamilton Wilkins. No 2 contained 225 acres, three roods and 8 perches, and no 4 472 acres, two roods and six perches of marsh. Witnessed by Jno [John] Willson, Willm [William] Baker, J.O. Baker. Probated by John O. Baker on March 10, 1812. Recorded on March 12, 1812.