Dobbs County NcArchives Deed.....Caswell, Richard - Cobb, Jesse 1783
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Written: 1783

INDENTURE - RICHARD CASWELL TO JESSE COBB

NOTE:  It is sometimes unclear which tract belonged to whom so this abstract 
is almost word for word   
13 January 1783 - Indenture - RICHARD CASWELL of Dobbs County to JESSE COBB, 
merchant, of same - 10,000 pds current money pd by ALEXANDER LEITH whose 
interest in the lands herein described and also 70 shillings spice pd by sd 
JESSE COBB - several plantations on SS Neuse - one tract patented by GEORGE 
METTS on 25 September 1754 - SS of Southwest Creek, adj BENJAMIN HEATON - 200 
acres - 32 acres lying at the lower end of sd tract being a part of land 
conveyed to KITTREL MEANDINE by deed from THOMAS BOX on 4 July 1765 and by 
KITTRELL MANDINE to JOSEPH MARSHALL together with first above mentioned tract 
of land by deed 27 February 1769; another tract - SE of Southwest Creek, adj 
JOHN NUNN, Rooty Branch, SAMUEL BOX, MARSHALL - 250 acres being part of a 
tract patented by JOHN NUNN 5 May 1769 and by him sold to JOSEPH MARSHALL on 5 
February 1770; another tract - SE of Southwest Creek part of 2 patents, one 
granted to EDWARD FROST  --- ----  1761 and the other granted to RICHARD MASON 
for 200 acres on 11 April 1749 - adj MASON, mouth of Cabbin Branch, Mouth of 
Mirey Branch, MARSHALL, SAMUEL BOX - 178 acres being conveyed to JOSEPH 
MARSHALL by KITTREL MANDINE on 3 March 1769. The above several tracts 
containing in the whole 660 acres were conveyed to CASWELL by JOSEPH MARSHALL 
on 23 March 1772; NOTE; Not clear if this is another tract - 150 acres granted 
by patent to JOHN COART on 21 July 1774 and sd Coart conveyed to CASWELL on 30 
December 1774 - SE side of SW Creek adj LEONARD LOFTIN, CASWELL'S OWN LAND, 
NIXON, GEORGE MOYE, AYLER, STOREZ, HOPKINS, former line of JOHN NUNN on Rooty 
Branch then along NUNN'S patent line - 177 acres including the plantation 
whereon THOMAS BOX formerly lived called the Blue Banks, being part of a tract 
containing 251 acres granted by Patent to GEORGE THOMAS on 17 November 1738 - 
adj late widow ARRENDAL which was conveyed by THOMAS BOX to BENJ. DOWTY on 29 
October 1765 and by sd BENJAMIN DOWTY to MAJOR CROOM on 12 December 1768 and 
by sd CROOM conveyed to RICHARD CASWELL on 7 November 1772, on the river   
NOTE; Not sure if this is another tract - 127 acres NS Southwest Creek - adj 
EDWARD FROST including gristmill which was conveyed by THOMAS BOX to KITTRIL 
MUNDINE on 26 October 1765 and MUNDINE conveyed to MAJOR CROOM on 12 December 
1768 and CROOM sold to sd CASWELL on 23 March 1772 - 300 acres being a 
divident of 2 patents granted to THOMAS BOX on 26 November 1757 and the other 
on 10 May 1760 - adj MOSES TILGHMAN, EDWARD FROST, former line of JOSEPH 
MARSHALL, former line of MAJOR CROOM - beginning at former line of MAJOR CROOM 
of land patented by GEORGE THOMAS to patent of THOMAS BOX, Neuse River, MOSES 
TILGHMAN - corner of land conveyed by THOS BOX to EDWARD FROST, mill line 
formerly JOSEPH MARSHALL - including all land THOMAS BOX left unsold of the sd 
2 patents when he removed from the State to South Carolina, which sd land was 
by sd THOMAS BOX on 5 August 1771 conveyed to JOSEPH MUNDINE and by sd MUNDINE 
to JERUSHA TISDALE on 26 December 1771 and by TISDALE conveyed by CASWELL on 
28 March 1775. One other parcel - 100 acres - NS Southwest Creek on the creek 
adj MOSES TILGHMAN, Grait Branch - part of a tract patented by THOMAS BOX and 
by him conveyed to EDWARD FROST and by FROST conveyed to sd Caswell on 1 
January 1780
WIT:  S. W.??  ARNETT, WINSTON CASWELL
July Court Dobbs County 1783 - M. CASWELL, Clk
Enrolled Liber C p 438 - 12 July 1783 - S. CASWELL
Certified Copy - 13 Jan 1850 - STEPHEN WHITE, ROD
Re-registered Book 42 p 789 - November 1911


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