State of North Carolina
Onslow County

To Charles Gregory and William Humphrey greeting. Whereas Lott Mills hath produced a deed of conveyance made to him by Nancy Parker, Hollan Askew, Elizabeth Basden of a certain Tract or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Onslow in the State of North Carolina procured the same to be proved by B J Koonce in the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of our County of Onslow and it being represented to our said court that Nancy Parker, Hollan Askew, and Elizabeth Basden wife of said B Parker, A Askew, E Basden is so infirmed she can not travel to the said court of our said County of Onslow to be privily examined as to her free consent in executing the said conveyance therefore we command you or any two of you that at such certain day and place as you shall think fit you go to the said Nancy,Hollan,and Elizabeth Basden if she cannot conveniently come to you and privily and apart from her husband examine her the said Nancy,Hollan,and Elizabeth whether they executed the said conveyance freely and of her own accord without fear or compulsion of the said B Parker,Amos Askew,and E Basden her husband and the examination being distinctly and plainly wrote on the said deed or on some paper annexed thereto and when you shall have so taken the said examination you are to send the same closed up under the seals of you or any two of you together with this writ unto our said Court to be held for the said County of Onslow on the first Monday of February next ensuing in the year of our Lord 1838
Witnesseth
Jasper Ethridge clerk of said Court the first Monday of November AD 1837 in the 62nd year of the independence of said state Registered April 11,1838 Jasper Ethridge CC
                                                                       JG Wallace REG