Cumberland County North Carolina Deed book 2 page 123.

James Russell to Gabriel Harden

This indenture made this 28th day of April A.D. 1762 between James Russell of Cumberland in the Province of North Carolina on the one part; & Gabriel Harden of Sunenbury [Lunenburg] County & Province of Virginia of the other part. Witnesseth, that the sd. James Russell for ... the sum of Two hundred pounds Proc[lamation] money ... convey ... unto him the sd. Gabriel Hardin ... one certain tract or parcel of land lying & being in the County & Province afsd. containing 220 acres, more or less, lying on the So. side of Deep River, Beginning at a Sugartree, then along a straight line to a red oak; then along a line to a white; along a line to a sugar tree at the upper end of the land; then down the River to the first station ... and I, Mary Russell, the wife of James Russell do by these presents freely and willingly give up & surrender all her right of dower and power of thirds of & unto the above promises unto him the sd. Gabriel Harden his heirs & assigns. In witness whereof we set our hands & seals 28th day of April 1762.
James Russell, seal
Mary (her mark), seal

Test - Sterling Carroll
Charles x Finley - Susana Finley
North Carolina -- Cumberland County -- May Court 1762. Thus was the execution of the within deed, in open Ct., in due form of law, proved by the oath of Stirling Carroll, one of the subscribing evidences & admitted to record. 
Recorded in the securities of sd. Ct. Rich'd Move, C.C.