Columbus County Indenture- DEMPSY RUNNOLD



Submitted by Bette Dew, April 1998
North Carolina, Columbus County, NC
All rights reserved, 1998.

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA N0. 2338
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME GREETING KNOW YE THAT WE FOR
AND INCONSIDERATION OF THE SUM OF FIFTY SHILLING FOR EVRY HUNDRED ARES
HEREBY GRANTED PAID INTO OUR TREASURY DEMPSY RUNNOLD, HAVE GIVEN AND
GRANTED AND BY THESE PRESENTS GIVE AND GRANT UNTO THE SAID DEMPSEY
RUNNOLDS A TRACT OF LAND CONTAINING ONE HUNDRED ACRES LYING AND BEING
IN  THE COUNTY OF BLADEN EAST OF THE WHITE MARSH INCLUDING MANSFIELDS
IMPROVEMENT.  BEGINNING AT A WHITE OAK EAST OF THE DISMAL AND RUNNING
SOUTH THIRTY THREE CHAINS AND THIRTY FOUR LINKS TO A STAKE THEN EAST
THIRTY CHAINS THEN NORTH THIRTY THREE CHAINS AND THIRTY FOUR LINKS THEN
WEST THIRTY CHAINS TO THE BEGINNING.
        ENTERED 8TH OF NOVEMBER 1796. AS BY THE PLAT HEREUNTO ANNEXED DOTH
APPEAR TOGETHER WITH ALL WOODS WATERS MINES MINERALS HEREDITAMENTS TO
THE SAID LAND BELONGING OR APPERTAINING TO HOLD TO THE SAID DEMPSEY
RUNNOLDS HIS HEIRS AND APIGNS FOREVER YEILDING 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 GRANTER SHALL CAUSE THIS
GRANT TO BE REGISTERED IN THE REGISTERS OFFICE OF OUR SAID COUNTY OF
BLADEN WITHIN  TWELVE MONTHS FROM THE DATE HEREOF, OTHERWISE THE SAME
SHALL BE VOID AND OF NO EFFECT IN TESTIMONY WHERE OF WE HAVE THESE OUR
LETTERS TO BE MADE PATENT AND OUR GREAT SEAL TO BE HERE UNTO AFFIXED
WITNE?S. BENJAMIN WILLIAMS ESQUIRE OUR GOVENOR CAPTAIN GENERAL AND
COMMANDER IN CHIEF AT RALEIGH THE 15TH DAY OF AUGUST IN THE 25TH YEAR
OUR INDEPENDENCEW IN THE YEATR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND AEIGHT HUNDRED.
BY COMMANDER                                  B. WILLIAMS
WILL WHITE SECRETARY                             [SIGNED]

THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN JUST BEFORE COLUMBUS CO. WAS FORMED.I GOT THIS FROM
THE DEED OFFICE IN COLUMBUS CO. BETTE

                                 
              ©1998 Jerome Smith, Columbus County Coordinator
         Columbus County, North Carolina, USA All rights reserved.



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