Chowan County NcArchives Deed.....Downing, William - Proprietor, Lords 1721 ************************************************ 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, 8:52 am Written: 1721 Lords Proprietor Land Grant - William Downing - 30 March 1721 mpm transcription - Chowan Precinct Lords Proprietor Grant Book 111-A File 259 - North Carolina State Archives No Carolina By ye Hon'ble ye Govern'r etc. To ye Surveyor Gen'rl Or to his Deputy You are forthwith measure & lay out unto Capt'n Wm. Downing 450 Acres of Land Observing etc Given etc 1715. Cha: Eden Thos Pollock Nath: Chivon Tobias Knight Fra: Foster Survey by Virtue of ye within Warr'nt 450 acres of Land for Cap't Wm Downing by me Wm Maule Survey'r Gen'rl His Excell'y John Ld. Carteret Pal'n. etc. To all etc. Doe hereby give etc. unto Cap'n Wm Downing a tract of Land Con'n 450 Acres lying in Chowan precinct beginning at ye Center of 2 ..........oaks & a pine Mary Boarlands corn'r yn S 920 pole to a pine another of her corn'rs ..... yn E 194 pole to a pine on a branch of corneby Creek yn along ye various courses of ye branch to an oak James Barrows corn'r tree yn along his this line to ye first station being due Eas To have etc. Yielding etc. Ye Fee rent of one Shilling etc. Provided etc. Given Etc. ye March ye 30/ 1721. Witnesses etc. Cha: Eden Wm Reed Fran: Foster Rich'd Sanderson John Lovick File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/chowan/deeds/propriet206dd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb