Bertie  COUNTY  NC Land Grant - John Perry 1742

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North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina
Bertie County, North Carolina Land Grants
Grant to John Perry for 600 Acres
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"George the Second, etc…, To all to whom, etc…, Know
ye that we, etc…, Have Given and Granted unto John
Perry a tract of Land Containing Six hundred acres
Lying and being in Bertie County on the Western Side
of Barbeque Swamp. Begining at a Gum in the Western
edge aforsd. Swamp runing thence No. 60 West 126 Pole
to the Center of three pines at John Bush’s Corner
then So. 10 W: 266 Pole to a branch of Six maples on
Thomas Jones line, thence on his line So. 50 Et. 50
Pole to the Center of two red oaks & a pine So. 40
West 124 Pole to the Center of two pines & a White
oak So. 50 Et. 60 Pole to the Center of three years
So. 40 West 100 Pole to the center of other three
pines then So. 10 Et. 230 pole to a pine in John
Howells line, thence on his line No. 55 Et. 236 Pole
to the Center of a Gum & two maples in Barbeque
Swamp, thence down the said Swamp Various courses to
the first Station. To hold, etc…, Yielding and
paying, etc., four shillings Proclomation Money
Yearly for every hundred Acres, Seating the same with
one White person Clearing & Cultivating three acres
for every hundred within three Years and Entering
these Letters with the Auditor within Six Months. In
Testimony, etc… Witness, etc., Dated the 17th day of
May 1742.

	Gab. Johnston .  .  .  .  .”