Dobbs County NcArchives Photo Place.....William Rhodes Sr. Land Grant 1779 ************************************************ 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: Guy Potts http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004214 January 22, 2008, 9:10 pm Source: NC Archives Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/dobbs/photos/williamr1197gph.jpg Image file size: 98.4 Kb No. 1362 County - Dobbs Name - William Rhodes Acres - 300 Grant No. - 218 Issued - 10 Nov 1779 Warrant No. - [blank] Entry No. - 123 Entered - 8 Apr 1778 Book No. - 29 Page No. - 418 Location - On Falling Creek Beg. at a Gum in Bucks Pocoson Apr 28th 1779 Survey'd for William Rhodes a Plantation containing Three hundred Acres Land in Dobbs County on Falling Creek, Begining at a Gum in Buckes Pocosen on Charles Cogdell's line & runs therewith South Sixty West Eighty Eight poles to a pine his Corner, then with his own line North Eighty West Forty four poles to a black Jack, then with his other line South twenty West Forty six poles to a Gum his Corner, then with his line North Sixty West Two hundred & two poles to a pine, then North Two hundred & three poles then to the begining. C. Markland Surv'r STATE of NORTH-CAROLINA No. 123 Richard Caswell, Jun. Entry Officer of Claims for Lands in the County of Dobbs To the Surveyor-General, Greeting; You are hereby required, as soon as may be, to lay off and survey, for William Rhodes Sen'r a Tract or Parcel of Land, containing three hundred Acres, lying in the County aforesaid, Joining his own and Charles Cogdells lines on Falling Creek. Observing the Directions of the Act of Assembly in such Case made and provided for running out Lands. Two just and fair Plans of such Survey, with a proper Certificate annexed to each, you are to transmit, with this Warrant, to the Secretary's Office without Delay. Given at under my Hand at Kingston the eighth Day of April Anno Dom 1778 Rich'd Caswell Junr. Secretary of State Land Grant Office Warrants, Plats, etc. Dobbs County S.108.684-689 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/dobbs/photos/williamr1197gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb