Davidson County NcArchives Court.....Gerrard, Charles 1789
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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: 1789

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1789
North Carolina. General Assembly
November 02, 1789 - December 22, 1789
Volume 25, Pages 1-63

CHAPTER XLII.

An Act to Establish the Lines of a certain Tract of Land granted unto Charles 
Gerrard.

Whereas, it appears to the satisfaction of this General Assembly, that James 
Sanders, deputy-surveyor of the military lands of this state, did return a 
plat of survey of a tract of land for Charles Gerrard, Esquire, for two 
thousand five hundred and sixty acres, situate in the county of Davidson, for 
which plat a grant hath issued to the said Charles Gerrard, notwithstanding 
the said survey was not made to the cardinal points agreeable to law, by which 
means the said Charles Gerrard may be in a future day disturbed in his title 
of the said land: And whereas, the entry of the said Charles Gerrard is one of 
the oldest date in the said county of Davidson, and that it is not just he 
should suffer on account of any mistake or error in the deputy surveyor:

I. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North 
Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the 
boundary lines of a military grant of this state numbered number thirty-two, 
signed by his Excellency Richard Caswell, Esquire, then Governor of this 
state, the fourteenth day of March one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, 
given and granted unto Charles Gerrard, a Lieutenant in the North Carolina 
line, two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of land lying in the county of 
Davidson, on the south side of Cumberland river, including the mouth of Yellow 
creek, “Beginning at a white-oak on the river bank, thirty-four poles above 
the mouth of Yellow creek, then down the river to a hack-berry and boxelder, 
thence south thirty-five degrees east four hundred and sixty poles across the 
creek to an elm, thence north fifty-five east eight hundred and eighty-six 
poles to a white-oak, thence north thirty-five west three hundred and eighty-
two poles to the beginning,” be and are hereby declared to be the established 
boundary lines of the said Charles Gerrard's aforesaid tract of two thousand 
five hundred and sixty acres; any law, usage or custom to the contrary 
notwithstanding. Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be 
construed to injure the right of any individual to the said land.

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