Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Oldest Confirmed Record

 From Randy (my cousin) over at Genea-Musings:

it's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun!!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

1)  What is your oldest confirmed record? What is one of the oldest documents you've personally found for any ancestor?

2)  Share your oldest confirmed record: what it is, where it came from, and what it revealed.

2)  Please share your answers or information as a comment, on social media or in your own blog post!

Here's mine:

By far, the oldest documents I have are deeds I have obtained from the North Carolina Archives.  I have been slowly transcribing them and sharing here on my blog.  

Searching my blog found the oldest being from 1743 between Thomas Avent (1712-1757), the seller and Hosea Tapley (1691-1778), the buyer.  Thomas was my 6th great grandfather; his daughter married Joel Tapley (~1720-~1790) who was the son of Hosea Tapley, 5th and 6th great grandfathers respectively.  

The deed involved 200 acres of land in Northampton County, North Carolina which Hosea purchased for "500 pounds Rock Money." 

North Carolina Archives, Deeds and Mortgages - Northampton County, N.C.,
Book 1, p. 76-77, May 1743

This record revealed to me that the families lived near each other when they were in North Carolina and at that time, they were affluent enough to own that much land.

Thanks to Linda Stufflebean for this topic.