Bertie COUNTY NC deeds Wm Bryant 1723 Land Patent File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Cathy Farris http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/bertie.htm 1723 Land Records Lords Proprietor Book 111A File 590, film Secretary of State 1690-1960 S.108 160.28N Vol 109, 110, 111, 111A NCArchives Cathy Hart Farris 2002 (Spelling is as good as I can read it...cathy) Wm. BRYANT file 590 His Excell'y John S. Carteret__? Do hereby Give and Grant unto William BRYAN a Tract of Land containing Eighty Six Acres lying in Bertie Precinct lying on the North Side of Morattock River and then North side of BRIDGES Creek beginning at a oak one of William BRYANS corner Trees running N 60 E57 pole to the center of two red oaks and a white __? Timothy CUNINGHAMS line then along his line S10 E112 pole to a red oak one of CUNINGHAMS corner trees then S60 W123 pole to an ash on the NE side of BRIDGES Creek then along the Creek 90? pole to a white oak to the pocosan then N35 E20 pole to a red oak in William BRYANTS line then N78 E56 pole along the said line to a red oak the said BRYANS corner tree then along his other line N15 to the first station which said land was formerly granted by patent bearing date the 1st day of March 1719 to Henry WEST and by hem elapsed for want of due seating? and planting thereon and is now become due to the said William BRYANT by virtue of an order of Councils dated Oct 18th 1722. To have and to hold ? ? ? yearly ? ? rent of one Shilling for every fifty acres hereby granted ? provided ? April 1, 1723. Witness WREED? T. FOSTER A. SANDERSON Isovick? M. MOORE