BLADEN COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - Elisha Bedsole, Sr.'s 1791 deed to 130 acres
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Contributor's Note:  There were members of the Bedsole family in Bladen County 
before 1800.

Elisha Bedsole, Sr.'s 1791 deed to 130 acres in Virginia 

Beverly Randolph, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth Of Virginia, to all to 
whom these presents shall come Greetings; Know Ye, that in consideration of 
the composition of fifteen shillings sterling, paid by Elisha Bedsolt into the 
treasury of the Commonwealth, there is granted by the said Commonealth unto 
the said Elisha Bedsolt, a certain tract or parcel of land containing one 
hundred and fifty two acres by survey, bearing date the thirty first day of 
December, one thousand seven hundred and thirty four, lying and being in the 
county of Wythe, on the waters of Chestnut Creek, a branch of New River and on 
the east side of the creek and being part of an Order Of Council granted to 
the Loyal Company to take up and survey eight hundred thousand acres which 
order of council was established and confirmed by a decree of the court of 
appeals made in the city of Richmond seventh day of May, one thousand seven 
hundred and eighty three and bounded as follows, to Wit: 
Beginning at a red oak and on the side of a ridge by a spring and running 
north four degrees east seventy nine poles to two spanish oaks on a ridge 
south ten degrees east seventy one poles to three white oaks saplings south 
seventy five degrees west two hundred and thirty five poles to a spanish oak 
on a steep bank by a spring north thirty degrees west ninety one poles to two 
white oaks by a draft south eighty degrees east one hundred and eighty poles 
crossing the branch to the beginning. With its appurtenances to have and to 
hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said 
Elisha Bedsolt and his heirs forever. 
In Witness whereof, the said Beverly Randolph, Esquire, Governor of the 
Commonwealth Of Virginia, hath hereunto set his hand and caused the Lessor 
seal of the Commonwealth to be affixed thereunto, at Richmond, this twenty 
fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and 
Ninety One and of the Commonwealth the sixtieth.

					BEVERLY RANDOLPH 

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