Chowan County NcArchives Deed.....Bush, William - Proprietor, Lords 1716 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Maarbjerg http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006256 November 2, 2008, 8:49 am Written: 1716 Lords Proprietor Land Grant - William Bush - 19 October 1716 mpm transcription - Chowan Precinct Lords Proprietor Grant Book 111-B File 74 - North Carolina State Archives No Carolina Ps By etc. To ye Surveyor Gen'rl Or to his Deputy You are to lay out to Wm Bush 500 Acres of Land being due and Observing etc Given etc this 9th day of Aprile 1716 C: Eden Wm Reed N Chivon T Knight C Gale Survey'd by Vertue of the within War't 500 acres of Land for Wm Bush. By me Wm Maule Survey'r Gen'rl His Excell'y the Hon'ble John Ld. Carteret Pallatine. etc. To all to whom be Know yee etc. According to ye Great Deed Doe hereby Give and Grant. unto William Bush of said County a Tract of Land conteyning 500 Acres lyeing in Chowan p'cinct beginning at ye Center of 3 pines Francis Mac Clendens Corner tree then No 40d W'st 106 pole to a Gum on ye W'st side of ye Holly Branch yn up the meanders of ye Branch to a white oake formerly a corner Tree of Michael Hills then No 61d W'st 340 pole to a pine of ye mirey Branch yn up ye said Branch various coursese to a marked pine ye No. 75d E'st 420 pole to ye First Station, being due W. To have and to hold etc. Except etc. unto the said Wm Bush his Heires and Assigns Forever in as large and ample manner etc. Yielding and Paying etc yearly etc. the Fee rent of one Shilling for every Fifty Acres to be held etc. provide etc. Given etc. this 19th day of Octo'br 1716. Witnesses etc. Cha: Eden Tho: Pollock C Gale Fran's Foster T Knight Rights purchas'd pursuant to Ord'r of Council File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/chowan/deeds/propriet204dd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb