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Note: r use in USGenWeb Archives by Martha Marble <mmarble@erols.com> SASSER FAMILY LAND PAPERS - 1740 - 1855 - Southern Historical Collection - UNC - Chapel Hill - Wilson Library - Collection #3493
5. INDENTURE - JOHN SASSER, SR TO WILLIAM SASSER 7 April 1774 - JOHN SASSER, SENR merchant of Dobbs to WILLIAM SASSER, son, natural love and affection --- parcels in Dobbs -
200 acres SS Little River about 2 miles above lands formerly JOHN BOYD'S, meanders of river by patent to JAMES CHENY on 20 April 1745 and by him conveyed to JAMES MACKILWEAN and by MACKILWEAN to RICHARD CASWELL and by CASWELL to sd JOHN SASSER ----
300 acres NS Neuse, SS Little River between JOHN BOYD and JAMES CHENEY'S patent lines, on river as by patent by JAMES MACKILWEAN on 24 Nov 1744 and by him sold to RICHARD CASWELL and by CASWELL to sd JOHN SASSER---100 acres NS Little River, Jerrils branch patented by JAMES CONNER on 17 April 1745 and by CONNERS sold to JOHN REAFORD ----
1 (2?)00 acres Ss Little River on NS Neuse being the plantation JOHN REAFORD formerly lived patented to RICHARD BASS 19 April 1739 and by him sold to JOHN REAFORD and by REAFORD sold to JOHN SASSER ----
90 odd acres SS Little River opposite HOOKER'S land patened by said JOHN SASSER --- all houses, orchards, woods WIT THOS GRAY, R. CASWELL To Court April Term 1774 on oath of Richard CASWELL MARTIN CASWELL, CLk Enrolled Dobbs County Libre A pages 223 - 1 May 1774 - WM CASWELL, REGR State of NC, Lenoir Co - I certify this is an original copy D. CASWELL 6 Jan 1796
[Total acres = 890]
DEATH: died with son listed as infant (law at time indicates under 21) other documents says he is 5 years old
COURT: "North Carolina, Estate Files, 1663-1979," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-35567-443-44?cc=1911121&wc=93PN-PBD:1066694502,183204002,1066701131 : accessed 09 Oct 2014), Wayne County > S > Sasser, James & James H (1824) > image 1 & 2 of 146; citing State Archives, Raleigh.
State of NC Johnston Co
… 30th day of May 1849 at the Court House in Smithfield it take the deposition of Caleb Ballard who being duly sworn upon the …the matters in dispute in an action of Ejectment pending in the Wayne Superior Court of Law wherein John H. Sasser is the real plaintiff and Grady Garrip is the real … Says that he is Eighty-two years old July 4th next. Further says that John W Sassers great grandfather was John Sasser who died of Small Pox the summer after Corn Wallis troped through North Carolina and that he died Intestate, he further says that William Sasser his oldest son died the same summer also intestate. Leaving as his oldest son an heir James Sasser who was the father of John H. Sasser the plantiff in this case.
He further says that in the original plat or place and report of the division of the land of James Sasser now --- and before the --- marked No. 115. that the [next page] piece of land marked “Island” between the mouth of the Little Jumping run & New Bridge as delineated in said plat or place was from his earliest boyhood know and called the Sasser land and that he never heard of its being called by any other term until he was subpoenaed in the case. The he had always known that the line marked around the island was called the old bed or term of the lives and the water was used to run there until a mill was built at the neck and cut off by old John Sasser the Great grandfather of the Planitiff which turned the river and formed a new chanel across the neck. He further states that he has heard that Joshua Howell & his father say that they had corn ground and went to a mill opposite the neck or cut off which was called John Sasser Mill.
.. Cleb Ballard {his mark}
Wm H Moring J.P
Wm H Watson J.P
Note: DEEDS: Wayne County, NC - Deeds - Land Papers, Sasser Family, 1740-1855 File contributed fo
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