Deed Book 21, page 415, Edgecombe County register of Deeds Office, Tarboro, N.C.
On 21 February 1835, Willie (Wiley) Rountree, who lived on Contentnea Creek in what is now Wilson County, purchased an enslaved woman named Temperance and her children Marian and David for $812 from William Horn of Wayne County, North Carolina.
Abstracts of deeds recording the purchase of real property by African-Americans during the first fifty years of freedom (or earlier):
Abstracts of deeds recording the purchase of real property by African-Americans during the first fifty years of freedom (or earlier):
Abstracts of deeds recording the purchase of real property by African-Americans during the first fifty years of freedom:
Wilson County Register of Deeds Office, Wilson.
Six years before buying a lot at the corner of Broad Avenue and South Yelverton Street in Stantonsburg, Moyton Lodge #5101 bought a lot from the county school board on what is now N.C. Highway 58.
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COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
TO
TRUSTEES OF MOYTON LODGE NO. 5101 OF THE G.U.O. OF O.F. WILSON
Deed
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, WILSON COUNTY }
THIS DEED made this the 12th day of January, 1903, by John F. Bruton, Chairman, R.T. Barnes and Jesse A. Moore, composing “The County Board of Education of Wilson County” and James W. Hayes, Clerk of said Board, the parties of the first part, to Henry Burney, Lewis Williams, Daniel Harris, Sampson Edwards, Walter L. Atkinson, Ruffin Hatch, and George W. Applewhite, Trustees of Moyton Lodge No. 5101 of the G.U.O. of O.F., the parties of the second part,
WITNESSETH: That the parties of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of Four Hundred Dollars in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, has bargained, sold, and conveyed and do by these presents bargain, sell and convey unto the parties of the second part and their successors in office, that certain lot or parcel of land lying and being situate in Stantonsburg Township, Wilson County, North Carolina, and described as follows: —
One-half acre of land, on the west side of the road leading from Moyeton to Wilson, N.C. — the same being a square and marked by a lightwood postal each corner, and being formerly a portion of the David B. Hill tract and the Stancil and David Hill, School Committeemen of White Public School District No. 42 of Stantonsburg Township said deed being recorded in Book 29 on page 564 in the Register of Deeds Office of Wilson County, to which deed reference is hereby made for a more definite description.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above described lot of land to them, the parties of the second part, trustees of aforesaid, and their successors in office in fee-simple forever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said John F. Bruton, Chairman, R.T. Barnes, and Jesse A. Moore, composing “The County Board of Education of Wilson County” and James W. Hayes, Clerk of said Board, have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Jno. F. Bruton, Chairman, R.T. Barnes, Jesse A. Moore, James W. Hayes, Clerk
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Deed Book 65, page 288, Wilson County Register of Deeds Office, Wilson.
Abstracts of deeds recording the purchase of real property by African-Americans during the first fifty years of freedom:
Wilson County Register of Deeds Office, Wilson.
On 27 September 1913, for $350, Wilson Insurance & Realty Company sold Columbus E. Artis a lot at the corner of Vick and Nash Streets, known as Lot 8 of Block A of the Rountree Tract. The address of this property is now 103 North Vick Street.
Deed Book 97, page 242, Wilson County Register of Deeds Office, Wilson.
On 22 September 1913, Samuel H. and Annie M. Vick sold mail carrier Albert S. Barnes and blacksmith Hilliard T. Thomas a lot on the south side of Tarboro Street adjoining the property of Wilson Oil Mill and W.J. Davis Machinery Company. Vick had purchased the 40 foot by 150 foot lot from Silas Lucas and wife.
W.J. Davis Machinery, formerly Davis & Winstead, was on the south side of South Tarboro, at the Kenan Street end of the block. (Wilson Oil Mill owned a lot there, but their facility was on Grace Street at Stemmery Street.) The Vicks were among a very few African Americans who invested in real estate in early twentieth-century Wilson’s industrial blocks.
Deed book 97, page 235, Wilson County Register of Deeds Office, Wilson.
In the fall of 1951, having opened several new brick school buildings across the county for African-American students, the Wilson County Board of Education moved to auction off its old wooden school houses, some of which had been built with Rosenwald funds. For several weeks, the Wilson Daily Times ran lengthy notices identifying the properties by name and metes and bounds.
Early in 1952, the Daily Times reported land transfers involving four of the former “colored” schools — Jones Hill, Stantonsburg, Bynums, and New Vester.
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Wilson Daily Times, 3 January 1952.
On 30 May 1913, the Wilson County Board of Education sold Frank Baines and Thomas Jones, trustees of an unnamed church, a one-quarter acre tract “in the northwest corner of the school lot, District #2 colored, Old Fields Township” to be used for a church.
Deed book 97, page 258, Wilson County Register of Deeds Office, Wilson.
Where in Old Fields was the District #2 colored school? Was this the land upon which Jones Hill Primitive Baptist Church was built?