BLADEN COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - Elisha Bedsole, Sr.'s 1791 deed to 152 acres
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Contributor's Note:  There were members of the Bedsole family in Bladen County 
before 1800.

Elisha Bedsoles Land Patent (Deed) to 152 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 amount of composition of fifteen pounds sterling, paid by Elisha Bedsolt
unto the treasury of the Commonwealth there is granted by the said
commpnwealth to the said Elisha Bedsolt a certain tract or parcel of land
containing one hundred and fifty two acres by survey bearing date of the
thirty first day of december one thousand seven hundred and seventy 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 the council was established and confirmed by a
decree of the court of appeals made in the City Of Richmond made on the second
day of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty three and bounded as
followeth: To Wit: Beginning at a red oak on the side of a ridge by a spring
and running thence north seventy four degrees east seventy nine poles to two
spanish oaks on a ridge south ten degrees east seventy one poles to three
white oak 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 five poles to two white oaks by a draft south eighty degrees east one
hundred and eighty eight poles crossing a 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 said
Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond, on the 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    (Seal) 


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