Guilford County NcArchives Deed.....McDowell, Joseph - North Carolina, State Of 1780 ************************************************ 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: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com May 22, 2006, 4:40 am Written: 1780 Recorded: March 1, 1780 Land Grants, Microfilm S.108.721, North Carolina State Archives, No. 420, Grant #422, Entry #48, Book #33, page #468, issued March 1, 1780: “Plotted by a scale of 200 poles in an inch. For 50 shillings per hundred acres, to JOSEPH MCDOUGHAL ['McDowell'-This spelling is not so far-fetched, if it is pronounced in the same way as bread 'dough.’] ‘A tract of land containing 250 acres lying and being in our County of Guilford on the waters of the south side Reedy Fork [Reedy Fork Creek dissects the entire county of Guilford, but according to the Hughes or Custom House Map, Greene’s army crossed, and may even have camped on the McDowell farm located in the triangle formed by Reedy Fork Creek, Long Branch, and Arvin’s Branch. They were reported to have crossed the creek at ‘McCuiston’s Bridge] of Haw River, beginning at a black gum in William Scott’s line, at or near Gustavus McCuistion’s corner near a branch, running thence west crossing two branches, one hundred-sixty poles to a post oak, thence north crossing a branch two hundred-twenty-five poles to a white oak, thence east forty-two poles to Abraham Whiteside’s corner black oak, thence along his line, north seventy- three poles to a grub, thence west ninety-two poles to a grub in JOHN WHITE’s line, thence south one hundred sixty nine poles to his corner stake, thence east twenty-four poles to a white oak sapling in said William Scott’s line, south one hundred-thirty poles to the first station. JOSEPH MCDOUGHAL, jun., William Scott.}S.C.C. Charles Bruce” Dated March 1, 1780.” Signed Richard Caswell, governor, Jonathan Frank. [No. 422]. This grant includes a diagram of the plat map. This information is repeated in the Record of Deeds, Vol. 2, page 118, Microfilm C.046.40001 at North Carolina Archives. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/deeds/northcar86gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb