Beaufort County NcArchives Court.....Pearce, Mary October 7, 1808
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Source: Transcribed From The Original At Ncdah, Crx Box 167, Hezekiah Pearce Folder
Written: October 7, 1808

We the Subscribers Commissioners appointed in the annexed order for laying off 
to Polly Pearce one of the daughters of Hezekiah Pearce her proportion of the 
lands belonging to her upon Blounts Creek & which was formerly the property of 
Benjamin Pearce having met upon the lands with the County surveyor Miles 
Chance Esquire & having examined them find that a tract containing by 
estimation one hundred & twenty five acres had formerly been held by Olive, 
Rachel Mary, Ann & John H.  Pearce, that thirty five acres a piece being Lots 
No.  1 & 2 on the annexed plat had been laid off to Olive & Rachel the two 
oldest which had by sundry conveyances become the poperty of William 
Blackledge.  We then next proceeded to lay off to the said Mr the ballance of 
the said tract of land as follows (to wit) 

Begining at a Stake at the division fence in the field on Blounts Creek & 
runing So 15 Wt 14 poles, then No. 55 Wt 4 pole to a stake at the persimmon, 
then So. 64 Wt. 18 poles near the gut in a line with a Sassafras & Catalpa 
tree at the Creek side, then from the Sassafras No. 70 Wt 6 the back line for 
thirty five acres being Lot No.  3 on the above plan.  Then the ballance we 
proceeded to lay off into two Lots.  No.  4 & 5 as by the annexed plan as 
follows to wit.  Begining at the end of the 18 pole in the upper line of Lot 
No.  3 & continuing on the Course So.  64 St across the gut 48 pole to a white 
oak at the mouth of the little fork branch, then No.  70 Wt to the back line 
for 35 acres then from the White Oak at the mouth of the little Fork branch up 
the various courses of the little Fork branch around to where the upper line 
of Lot No.  4 for 35 Acres as per the annexed plat.

Lot No.  3 we have valued at twenty five shillings per acre
Lot No.  4 we value at twenty shillings per acre.
Lot No.  5 at twenty shillings per acre.

And we allot & lay of to the petitioner Mary Pearce the Lot Number three 
adjoining to the two lots hereto for laid off for Olive & Rachel her sisters 
as her proportion of said lands, & award that she pay to Ann & John H. Pearce 
equally between them the difference in value between her lot & the two 
remaining to be divided between them.  October the 17th, 1808.
                                                his
                                             J.H. Orrell
                                                 mark

William Orrell                                 
Jesse Jones
John Cone

   

                                                      Tho.  M.  Adams




Additional Comments:
Children of Hezekiah Pearce named: Olive, Rachel, Mary, Ann and John H. 

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