[Document 1]

[Written on the torn envelope] Isaac Bronson, Gould Hoyt, and Archibald McIntyre to Samuel J. Justice appointment of agent 18 to 33 inclusive

       Heirs, Successors, and Assigns of Isaac Bronson, Goold Hoyt and Archibald Macintyre, to Samuel J. Justice. Appointment of Agent. Filed for registration on April 29th, 1911. Recorded May 6th 1911 in book 28 at page 175 of Deeds Polk County, N.C. F.M. Burgess(?), R. of D.
       Baylis & Sanborn, Counselors at Law, 37 & 39 Liberty Street, Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York.
       Filed for record at 8 o'clock, a.m. this 22 day of May 1911 and recorded in book 72, folio 173. S.M. King, Register of Deeds. Henderson County, N.C., M.J. Morris. Reg. fee, $1.50

       Know all men by these presents, that we,
       Gertrude Hoyt, (unmarried)
       Virginia S. Hoyt, (unmarried)
       May A. Hoyt, with of Goold Hoyt,
       and Angelica L. Morgan (widow)
       and Gerald L. Hoyt,
(together with all persons who have or shall execute an instrument of the same tenor, date and effect as this one) being the full majority in interest of all the present owners or heirs, successors and assigns of Isaac Bronson, Goold Hoyt and Archibald MacIntyre, who were the owners of the property referred to in a certain trust deed, bearing date the 8th day of March, Eighteen Hundred and Thirty, and registered in Book 37, Page 400, in the Register's Office of the County of Rutherford, in the State of North Carolina, HAVE MADE, CONSTITUTED AND APPOINTED, and do hereby make, constitute and appoint SAMUEL J. JUSTICE, of Hendersonville, North Carolina, our true and lawful attorney in fact and agent under said trust deed, to succeed C. Bayliss Justice, formerly agent thereunder and now deceased, with the same and equal rights, powers and duties as were possessed by or belonged to said C. Bayliss Justice under a certain power of attorney given t him by Wiliam Redmond, Jr., Francis M. Scott and others, dated the 1st day of November, in the year 1872, recorded on the 18th day of March, A.D., 1873, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Henderson County, the 19th day of October, 1908, in Book 61, folio 224, etc.; and also in a certain power of attorney made by David A. Thompson, George Willett Van Nest, William Redmond Cross and others to C. Bayliss Justice, dated the 18th day of April, in the year of 1902, A.D., and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Henderson County, North Carolina, on the 29th day of March, 1910, in Book 65 of Deeds, page 288, reference hereby being made to the said two powers of attorney, and also with such rights, powers and duties as were specified or were intended to be given to the said C. Bayliss Justice under the two powers of attorney; hereby ratifying and confirming all such things as the said Samuel J. Justice as such agent and attorney shall lawfully do under this power; provided that nothing herein contained shall have the effect to make valid any act, contract or sale heretofore made by the said C. Bayliss Justice as agent or otherwise, or hereafter to be made by the said Samuel J. Justice as such agent, or otherwise, unless such act, contract or sale be approved of by Willett Bronson, Superintending Agent of New York City, or by such Superintending Agent as shall be appointed to succeed him as provided by the said deed of trust.
       WE DO HEREBY ALSO RATIFY AND CONFIRM a certain trust deed, dated the 18th day of February, A.D., 1859, made by John Ward, sole surviving trustee, to William Redmond, Jr., Isaac Bronson and Francis Randall, and recorded in the County of Rutherford, in the State of North Carolina, on the 29th day of November, 1859, in Book 48 of Deeds, Number 198, and in various other Counties in said State of North Carolina, and a certain other trust deed made by William Redmond, Jr., Isaac Bronson and Francis Randall to William Redmond, Jr., Isaac Bronson and Francis M. Scott, dated the 14th day of November, 1871, and recorded on the 24th day of January, 1872, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, in the State of North Carolina, in Book 50 of Deeds, Number 247, and also recorded in other Counties in the said State of North Carolina; and a certain other trust deed made by Francis M. Scott, surviving trustee, dated the 12th day of March, A.D., 1901, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, in Book 76 of Deeds, page 242, on the 20th day of December, A.D. 1901, to David A. Thompson, George Willett Van Nest and William Redmond Cross, trustees, and a certain power of attorney made by William Redmond, Jr., and Francis M. , Scott, surviving trustees and others, dated the 1st day of November, A.D., 1872, and recorded the 18th day of March, A.D., 1873, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, in Book 51 of Deeds, Number 46, and elsewhere in the state of North Carolina, to the said C. Bayliss Justice, and a certain other power of attorney made by David A. Thompson, George Willett Van Nest and William Redmond Cross, trustees, and others, to C. Bayliss Justice, dated the 18th day of April, A.D., 1902, and recorded the 29th day of March, A.D., 1910, in Book 65 of Deeds, page 288, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Henderson County.
       WE DO ALSO RATIFY AND CONFIRM all deeds and powers hereinbefore referred to and all such acts, deeds and things as the said Trustees, the said Agent, C. Bayliss Justice, and said Superintending Agent, Willett Bronson, have done under and within the powers and limitations contained in the trust deeds and powers hereinbefore referred to.
       WE DO FURTHER COVENANT AND AGREE that responsibility as to receipts and disbursements is to rest upon WILLETT BRONSON, the present Superintending Agent, and his successor in office, and not upon the existing or any successor Trustees or Trustee.
       AND WE DO HEREBY GRANT AND CONVEY all our right, title and interest in and to the lands, and interest in lands, described in said trust deed bearing date the 8th day of March, 1830, and registered in Book 37, page 400, in the Register's Office of the County of Rutherford, in the State of North Carolina, to David A. Thompson, George Willett Van Nest and William Redmond Cross, as trustees, for the purposes set forth in the various trust deeds herein referred to, without limitation as to the area to be conveyed by them, their survivors or successors, to any grantee.
       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this 25th day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eleven.
       In presence of:
       Henry Hesse
              Angelica Morgan
              Gertrude Hoyt
              Gerald Hoyt
              Virginia Scott Hoyt
              Mary A. Hoyt

       State of New York, County of New York. I, Henry Hesse, a Notary Public in and for the above State and County, do here by certify that William D. Morgan and Angelica Morgan his wife, personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the due execution by her of the foregoing instrument: And the said Angelica Morgan, wife of William D. Morgan, being by me privately examined, separate and apart from her said husband, touching her voluntary execution of the same, doth state that she signed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion of her said husband or any other person, and that she doth still voluntarily assent thereto. My commission expires March 30th, 1911. Witness my hand and notarial seal, this the 23rd day of March, 1911. Henry Hesse, Notary Public (120), County of New York.
       State of New York, County of New York. I, Henry Hesse, a Notary Public in and for the above State and County, do hereby certify that Gertrude Hoyt and __________ his wife, personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the due execution by her of the foregoing instrument: And the said __________ wife of __________ being by me privately examined, separate and apart from her said husband, touching her voluntarily execution of the same, doth state that she signed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion of her said husband or any other person, and that she doth still voluntarily assent thereto. My commission expires March 30th, 1911. Witness my hand and notarial seal, this the 23rd day of March, 1911. Henry Hesse, Notary Public (120), County of New York.
       State of New York, County of New York. I, __________ a Notary Public in and for the above State and county, do hereby certify that Winfield S. Hoyt, and Percy S. Hoyt & Camilla S. Hoyt, his wife, personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the due execution by them of the foregoing instrument: And the said __________ wife of __________ being by me privately examined, separate and apart from her said husband, touching her voluntary execution of the same, doth state that she signed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion of her said husband or any other person, and that she doth still voluntarily assent thereto. My commission expires _____. Witness my hand and notarial seal, this the _____ day of _____, 1911. __________, Notary Public, County of New York.
       State of New York, County of New York. I, Henry Hesse, a Notary Public in and for the above State and County, do hereby certify that Mary A. Hoyt and wife of Gerald L. Hoyt, his wife, personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the due execution by her of the foregoing instrument: And the said Mary A. Hoyt, wife of Gerald L. Hoyt, being by me privately examined, separate and apart from her said husband, touching her voluntary execution of the same, doth state that she signed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion of her said husband or any other person, and tat she doth still voluntarily assent thereto. My commission expires March 30th, 1911. Witness my hand and notarial seal, this the 24th day of March, 1911. Henry Hesse, Notary Public (120), County of New York.

       State of New York, County of New York. I, Henry Hesse, a Notary Public in and for the above State and County, do hereby certify that Virginia S. Hoyt, and __________, his wife, personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the due execution by her of the foregoing instrument: And the said __________ wife of __________ being by me privately examined, separate and apart from her said husband, touching her voluntary execution of the same, doth state that she signed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion of her said husband or any other person, and that she doth still voluntarily assent thereto. My commission expires march 30th, 1911. Witness my hand and notarial seal, this the 28th day of March, 1911. Henry Hesse, Notary Public (120), County of New York.
       State of New York, County of New York. I, Albert L. Wickert, a Notary Public in and for the above State and County, do hereby certify that Gerald Hoyt and __________ his wife, personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the due execution by him of the foregoing instrument: And the said __________ wife of __________ being by me privately examined, separate and apart from her said husband, touching her voluntary execution of the same, doth state that she signed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion of her said husband or any other person, and that she doth still voluntarily assent thereto. My commission expires March 30th, 1912. Witness my hand and notarial seal, this the 15th day of April, 1911. Albert Lee Wickert, Notary Public (45), County of New York, Registry No. 2191.
       State of North Carolina, Henderson County. The foregoing certificates of Henry Hesse, a Notary Public of the County and State of New York and of Albert L. Wickert of the County and State of New York are adjudged to be correct. Let the foregoing instrument and the said certificates and this certificate be registered. This the 20th day of May, 1911. J.L. Pace, Deputy Clerk Supreme Court.
       State of North Carolina, County of Polk. The foregoing certificates of Henry Hesse and Albert Wickert, Notaries Public of the County of New York and State of New York are adjudged to us due form and according to law. Therefore let he foregoing instrument and with these certificates be registered, this 29th day of April 1911. J.P. Arledge, C.S.C.

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     Heirs, Successors, and Assigns of Isaac Bronson, Goold Hoyt, and Archibald MacIntyre, to Samuel J. Justice. Appointment of Agent. Filed for registration on April 29, 1911, and duly recorded in Book for Deeds 28, Page 181 at Register of Deeds office for Polk County, N.C. F.M. Burgess, Reg. of Deeds
       Baylis & Sanborn, Counselors at Law, 37 & 39 Liberty Street, Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York.
       Filed for record at 8 o'clock a.m. this 22 day of May, 1911 and recorded in book 72, folio 178. S.M. King, Register of Deeds. Henderson County, N.C. M. Morris, Deputy. Registration fee: $1.50 (pd).
       Mr. Robert Struthers and wife
              13 W. 16 St.
       Mr. J. Walker Wood and wife
              31 Fifth Ave
       Mr. John W. Cross and wife
              176 E. 64
       Geraldyn Redmond and wife
              309 Fifth Ave
       Mr. Hy B. Livingston and wife
              163 E. 82nd not there
       Miss Helen Redmond
              119 E. 55

       Know all men by these presents, that we
       Robert Struthers and Sabrina R. Struthers, his wife,
       J. Walter Wood, and Nathalie Wood, his wife,
       Richard J. Cross, and Annie R. Cross, his wife,
       William R. Cross, Mary R. Cross, Emily
       R. Cross, Eliot Cross, John W. Cross
       and Lily Lee Cross, his wife,
       Henry B. Livingston, and Frances Livingston,
       his wife,
       Geraldyn Redmond, and Estelle Redmond his wife,
       Helen Redmond (widow) and Emily Redmond (unmarried),
       Allan Marquand and Eleanor C. Marquand his wife,
(together with all persons who have or shall execute an instrument of the same tenor, date and effect as this one) being the full majority in interest of all the present owners or heirs, successors and assigns of Isaac Bronson, Goold Hoyt and Archibald MacIntyre, who were the owners of the property referred to in a certain trust deed, bearing date the 8th day of March, Eighteen Hundred and Thirty, and registered in Book 37, Page 400, in the Register's Office of the County of Rutherford, in the State of North Carolina, HAVE MADE, CONSTITUTED AND APPOINTED, and do hereby make, constitute and appoint SAMUEL J. JUSTICE, of Hendersonville, North Carolina, our true and lawful attorney in fact and agent under said trust deed, to succeed C. Bayliss Justice, formerly agent thereunder and now deceased, with the same and equal rights, powers and duties as were possessed by or belonged to said C. Bayliss Justice under a certain power of attorney given t him by William Redmond, Jr., Francis M. Scott and others, dated the 1st day of November, in the year 1872, recorded on the 18th day of March, A.D., 1873, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Henderson County, the 19th day of October, 1908, in Book 61, folio 224, etc.; and also in a certain power of attorney made by David A. Thompson, George Willett Van Nest, William Redmond Cross and others to C. Bayliss Justice, dated the 18th day of April, in the year of 1902, A.D., and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Henderson County, North Carolina, on the 29th day of March, 1910, in Book 65 of Deeds, page 288, reference hereby being made to the said two powers of attorney, and also with such rights, powers and duties as were specified or were intended to be given to the said C. Bayliss Justice under the two powers of attorney; hereby ratifying and confirming all such things as the said Samuel J. Justice as such agent and attorney shall lawfully do under this power; provided that nothing herein contained shall have the effect to make valid any act, contract or sale heretofore made by the said C. Bayliss Justice as agent or otherwise, or hereafter to be made by the said Samuel J. Justice as such agent, or otherwise, unless such act, contract or sale be approved of by Willett Bronson, Superintending Agent of New York City, or by such Superintending Agent as shall be appointed to succeed him as provided by the said deed of trust.
       WE DO HEREBY ALSO RATIFY AND CONFIRM a certain trust deed, dated the 18th day of February, A.D., 1859, made by John Ward, sole surviving trustee, to William Redmond, Jr., Isaac Bronson and Francis Randall, and recorded in the County of Rutherford, in the State of North Carolina, on the 29th day of November, 1859, in Book 48 of Deeds, Number 198, and in various other Counties in said State of North Carolina, and a certain other trust deed made by William Redmond, Jr., Isaac Bronson and Francis Randall to William Redmond, Jr., Isaac Bronson and Francis M. Scott, dated the 14th day of November, 1871, and recorded on the 24th day of January, 1872, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, in the State of North Carolina, in Book 50 of Deeds, Number 247, and also recorded in other Counties in the said State of North Carolina; and a certain other trust deed made by Francis M. Scott, surviving trustee, dated the 12th day of March, A.D., 1901, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, in Book 76 of Deeds, page 242, on the 20th day of December, A.D. 1901, to David A. Thompson, George Willett Van Nest and William Redmond Cross, trustees, and a certain power of attorney made by William Redmond, Jr., and Francis M. , Scott, surviving trustees and others, dated the 1st day of November, A.D., 1872, and recorded the 18th day of March, A.D., 1873, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, in Book 51 of Deeds, Number 46, and elsewhere in the state of North Carolina, to the said C. Bayliss Justice, and a certain other power of attorney made by David A. Thompson, George Willett Van Nest and William Redmond Cross, trustees, and others, to C. Bayliss Justice, dated the 18th day of April, A.D., 1902, and recorded the 29th day of March, A.D., 1910, in Book 65 of Deeds, page 288, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Henderson County.
       WE DO ALSO RATIFY AND CONFIRM all deeds and powers hereinbefore referred to and all such acts, deeds and things as the said Trustees, the said Agent, C. Bayliss Justice, and said Superintending Agent, Willett Bronson, have done under and within the powers and limitations contained in the trust deeds and powers hereinbefore referred to.
       WE DO FURTHER COVENANT AND AGREE that responsibility as to receipts and disbursements is to rest upon WILLETT BRONSON, the present Superintending Agent, and his successor in office, and not upon the existing or any successor Trustees or Trustee.
       AND WE DO HEREBY GRANT AND CONVEY all our right, title and interest in and to the lands, and interest in lands, described in said trust deed bearing date the 8th day of March, 1830, and registered in Book 37, page 400, in the Register's Office of the County of Rutherford, in the State of North Carolina, to David A. Thompson, George Willett Van Nest and William Redmond Cross, as trustees, for the purposes set forth in the various trust deeds herein referred to, without limitation as to the area to be conveyed by them, their survivors or successors, to any grantee.
       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this 25th day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eleven.
       In presence of:
       Henry Hesse
              Robert Struthers
              Sabrina R. Struthers
              J. Walter Wood
              Nathalie Wood
              Geraldyn Redmond
              Estelle L. Redmond
              W.R. Cross
              Mary R. Cross
              Emily R. Cross
              Eliot Cross
              J.W. Cross
              Lily Lee Cross
              Helen Redmond
              Emily Redmond
              Allan Marquand
              Eleanor C. Marquand
              Henry B. Livingston
              Frances Livingston

       State of New York, County of New York. I, Henry Hesse, a Notary Public for the above State and County, do hereby certify that Robert Struthers and Sabrina R. Struthers, his wife, personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the due execution by them of the foregoing instrument. And the said Sabrina R. Struthers, wife of Robert Struthers being by me privately examined, separate and apart from her said husband, touching her voluntary execution of the same, doth state that she signed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion of her said husband or any other person, and that she doth still voluntarily assent thereto. My commission expires March 30, 1911. Witness my hand and notarial seal, this the 23rd day of March, 1911. Henry Hesse, Notary Public (120), County of New York.
       State of New York, County of New York. I, Henry Hesse, a Notary Public in and for the above State and County, do hereby certify that J. Walter Wood and Nathalie Wood his wife, personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the due execution by them of the foregoing instrument: And the said Nathalie Wood wife of J. Walter Wood being by me privately examined, separate and apart from her said husband, touching her voluntary execution of the same, doth state that she signed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion of her said husband or any other person, and that she doth still voluntarily assent thereto. My commission expires March 30th, 1911. Witness my hand and notarial seal, this the 23rd day of March, 1911. Henry Hesse, Notary Public (120), County of New York.
       State of New York, County of New York. I, __________, a Notary Public in and for the above State and County, do hereby certify that Richard J. Cross and Annie R. Cross his wife, personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the due execution by them of the foregoing instrument: And the said Annie R. Cross, wife of Richard J. Corsss, being by me privately examined, separate and apart from her said husband, touching her voluntary execution of the same, doth state that she signed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion of her said husband or any other person, and that she doth still voluntarily assent thereto. My commission expires ______, Witness my hand and notarial seal, this the _____ day of _____, 1911. __________, Notary Public, County of New York.
       State of New York, County of New York. I, Henry Hesse, a Notary Public in and for the above State and County, do hereby certify that William R. Cross and Eliot Cross his wife, personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the due execution by them of the foregoing instrument: And the said __________ wife of __________ being by me privately examined, separate and apart from hers aid husband, touching her voluntary execution of the same, doth state that she signed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion of her said husband or any other person, and that she doth still voluntarily assent thereto. My commission expires March 30, 1911. Witness my hand and notarial seal, this the 23rd day of March, 1911. Henry Hesse, Notary Public (120), County of New York.