ORDERING THAT A LAND DEED BE REGISTERED, in an autograph docket, signed 11 May 1855, as a district court judge

by John W. Ellis, Governor of North Carolina

$150 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Folio. 2 pages, with the docket on the second page; integral leaf with further docketing. In the document, Matthias Manly, whom Ellis would appoint to the North Carolina Supreme Court four years later, is named as purchaser of a parcel of land in Carteret County from Henry G. Rutter. Manly appended to the document a pencil note concerning the land's ownership. Folded, but very good. Item #37870

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