CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - John Kendrick Land Grant - 1783

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 Chatham County, North Carolina Deed Book "C" Page 226

 
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                        State of North Carolina             No. 605
 
      To all to whom these presents shall come greeting
 Know Ye that We for and in Consideration of the Sum of fifty Shillings
 for every hundred Acres hereby granted paid into Our Treasury by John
 Kendrick have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant
 unto the Said John Kendrick A Tract of Land Containing Two hundred
 Acres lying and being in Our County of Chatham Beginning at the Spanish
 Oak on Davidson Mountain and turning East one hundred and eighty poles
 to a post Oak then South across Pattersons Creek one hundred and twenty
 five poles to a post Oak then West Across Said Creek one hundred poles 
 to a Hickory then South one hundred poles to a post Oak then West Ninety 
 two  poles to a White Oak then North one hundred and Sixty poles to a 
 Beach  on the bank of Deep River then down the same to the first Station 
 as by the plat hereunto Annexed doth appear Together with all Woods, 
 Waters,  Mines, Minerals, Hereditaments and Appurtenances to the said 
 Land  belonging or Appertaining To hold to the said John Kendrick and 
 his heirs and assigns forever yielding and paying to us such Sums of 
 Money yearly or otherwise as Our General Assembly from Time to Time may 
 direct Provided Always that the said John Kendrick Shall Cause this
 grant to be Registered in the Registers office of Our said County of
 Chatham within twelve months from the date hereof otherwise the
 Same Shall be Void and of no Effect
   In Testimony whereof We have Caused these Our letters to be made
 patent and Our great seal to be hereunto affixed. Witness Alexander
 Martin Esquire Our Governor Captain General and Commander in
 Cheif at Hillsboro the Ninth Day of October and the Eighth year of Our
 Independence and in the year of Our Lord one thousand Seven hundred
 and Eighty three
 By His Excelly's Comd
                                  Alexr: {Great Seal} Martin
 F Glasglow Secretary