This morning I shared an amazing listing of a circa 1821 federal house in Stantonsburg, North Carolina. Everyone immediately wanted to know the history and I knew there had to be a good one! Jeremy Bradham found us some great information and I knew it needed its own post. How cool is the video up above?! And it makes me really want that house even more!
This was known as the Seth Speight house. I found a part of his father’s will where he left Seth the land:
Copy of the Will of SETH SPEIGHT, SR. [of Greene County, N.C.]
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I, SETH SPEIGHT, SR. being weak in body, but thank God enjoying
the full use of my mental faculties, do make and ordain this my last
will and testament in the manner and form following, to wit:
Item.
I give and bequeath unto my son SETH SPEIGHT the following tract of
land, viz: beginning at the mouth of Watry Branch on the North side of
Great Contentnea Creek and running with WILLIAM SPEIGHT's line to his
corner a post oak, then with his other line to his corner a hickory,
then with LANGSTON'S line to his corner a post oak, then with his said
LANGSTON's other line to JOHN GAINY's beginning corner, a pine then
WILLIAM SPEIGHT's line to his corner, then with his other line to a
point opposite the head of Pig Pen Branch, then down the various
courses of said branch to the place where said branch, Swift's Branch,
and a small branch making into dry swamp part, then down the various
courses of the said small branch to the dry swamp then down the various
courses of dry swamp to the Polly Causy Branch, then along the various
courses of said branch to the head of Dry Marsh, then down the various
courses of the Dry Marsh to SAMUEL VINE's Line, then with the several
courses and distances of said VINE's line to Contentnea Creek at a place
called the Old hedge, then down the various courses of said creek to
the beginning, containing 600 acres more or less in two plantations.
This was “study listed” in 1999 for the National Register of Historic Places. That means it is eligible for National Register listing, but no report has been done. What exactly does that mean for this house? Jeremy put together a great article describing what it means to be on the National Register. Read it here.
Stantonsburg, NC. Circa 1821. Three acres. $179,000.
