Bertie  COUNTY  NC  Land Grant  Thoms Ruffin 1830

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Bertie County North Carolina 
Land Grants 
Secretary of State 
Book 6  Page 245 

State of North Carolina                      Number 13 

Know all men by these presents that we by virtue of an
act of Assembly passed at the Session of 1828-29,
Chap.19, entitled an act concerning the lands formerly
occupied by the Tusharora tribe of Indians, lying in
Bertie county on the North side of Roanoke river, in
consideration of the sum of ninety two dollars and fifty
cents paid into the Treasury of this State by Thomas
Ruffin the receipt whereof has been certified by the
Treaurer, have granted bargained and sold, released and
confirmed and by these presents do grant bargain sell
release and confirm unto him the said Thomas Ruffin his
heirs and assigns forever, all the revissionary interest,
right and title in and to a certain tract or parcel of
land lying in the County of Bertie, and included in the
Indian boundary specified in the aforesaid act of
Assembly butted and bounded as follows, viz, Beginning at
a white oak Stump in William Mhoon's line Robt A. Jones's
corner, then No 5 Et 434 pole, then No 57 Wt 325 pole, !
then So 24 Wt 120 pole to a corner formerly called Kings,
then along that line to the mouth of Dickens branch in
Town Swamp, then down said Swamp to Jas G Mhoons corner,
then along said Mhoons line to a pine in the old Indian
path, then along said path So 40 Et 30 pole, then So 59
Et 24 pole then So 4 pole to the corner of the land
formerly Henry Johnston's, then along that line to
Roberts Swamp, then down said Swamp to Wm. Pugh's corner,
then along Pugh's line to Wm. Williams line, then along
said Williams line continuing in said Swamp to the
dividing line between Thos Ruffin and the [ ? ] of Jos.
S. Pugh & along that line to Wm S Mhoons line thence
along said Mhoon's line to the beginning containing 1850
acres to hold to the said Thomas Ruffin his heirs and
assigns for ever Dated 9th March 1830. 
  Wm Hill (Seal) 

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