Chowan County NcArchives Deed.....Downing, William - Proprietor, Lords 1720 ************************************************ 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, 8:51 am Written: 1720 Lords Proprietor Land Grant - William Downing - 10 August 1720 mpm transcription - Chowan Precinct Lords Proprietor Grant Book 111-A File 92 - North Carolina State Archives No Carolina By etc. To ye Surveyor Gen'rl Or to his Dep'ty You are to lay out for Wm. Downing a tract of Land cont. 640 acres Observing etc Given etc 1720. C. Eden Thom Pollock Wm Reed Rich Sanderson Fra Foster By Vertue of ye within Warrant Surveyed for Wm Downing etc. 1720. Wm Grey Survey'r Gen'rl His Excell'y John Ld. Carteret Pal. etc. To all to Whom these presents ..... Doe hereby give and grant unto Capt. William Downing a tract of Land containint 640 Acres lying in Chowan precinct on the South Side of Moratuck river beginning at a sweet Gum in a branch by the river Side then up this Branch 50 poles to a poplar on the head of a branch then South 20 W 270 pole to three pines then N 70 W 290 pole to a Branch on the Side of ..... then down the sd branch 50(?) pole to a red Oak on the river Percosan then the windings of the Percosan and River to the first Station being direct. To have & to hold etc. Yielding & paying etc. Yearly etc. the Fee rent of one Shilling for every Fifty Acres hereby granted to be etc. Provided etc. Given Etc. ye 10th Aug 1720. Witnesses C Eden Thos Pollock Wm Reed Richd Sanderson Fra Foster File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/chowan/deeds/propriet205dd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb