BLADEN COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - Elisha Bedsole, Sr.'s 1785 Deed To 400 Acres
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Contributor's Note:  There were members of the Bedsole family in Bladen County 
before 1800.

Elisha Bedsole, Sr.'s 1785 Deed To 400 acres in Virginia 

Patrick Henry, Esquire, Governoe Of the Commonwealth Of Virginia, to all to 
whom these presents shall come: GREETINGS, Know ye, that by virtue of a 
certificate in right of settlement given by the Commonwealth for adjusting the 
titles to unpatented lands in the district of Washington and Montgomery and in 
consideration of the ancient composition of two pounds sterling paid by Elisha 
Bedsoll into the treasury of the Commonwealth there is granted by the said 
Commonwealth unto the said Elisha Bedsoll a certain tract or parcel of land 
containing four hundred acres and by survey bearing date the nineteenth day of 
October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty two lying and being in the 
county of Montgomery on Chestnut Creek, a branch of New River as bounded as 
follows, to wit: 
Beginning at a white oak sapling on the point of a ridge, south thirty one 
degrees east one hundred and fourteen poles to a white oak by a branch south 
fifty two degrees east one hundred and sixteen poles to two chestnuts south 
sixty degrees east one hundred and fourteen poles to a white oak sapling on 
the bank of the creek and down the creek two hundred poles to a hickory 
sapling north thirty one degrees east sixty poles crossing the creek to a 
white oak sapling north twenty five degrees east ninety poles to a white oak 
on the top of a high hill north seventy five degrees west two hundred and 
fifty eight poles crossing the creek, thence south thirty degrees west. 
Whereof, the said Patrick Henry, Esquire, Governor of The Commonwealth Of 
Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and caused the Lesser seal of the said 
Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the twenty fifth day of April in the 
year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundre and eighty five and of the 
Commonwealth, the nineth. 

                                                                                        Patrick Henry 

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