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Whereas in and by a certain Indenture made at the City of New York by and between Isaac Bronson and Goold Hoyt of the City [County?] and State of New York parties thereto of the first part and James J. Hoyt, John Ward and William [S.?] Ward, parties thereto of the second part and [acted?] the 8th day of March 1830. And recorded in Book 37 No. 409 n the Registers Office of Rutherford County in the State of North Carolina, the said parties of the first part conveyed to the said parties of the second part and their heirs forever to hold as joint tenants and not as tenants in common and singular certain lands situated n the State of North Carolina and more particularly  described in said deed to such trusts and a are therein  expressed.

And whereas said parties of the second part, their survivors or survivors authorized by said deed of[?] apparent-successors to themselves in said trust.  And whereas John Ward the sole survivor of said parties of the second