Johnston County, NC - Land & Deed Records

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Solomon Hinton Grant
Johnston County, NC
November Term 1779

Transcribed by Carol Norville Berning
berningc@worldnet.att.net

State of North Carolina To all To Whom these presents Shall Come Greeting

Know ye that we for and consideration of the sum of Fifty Shillings for every 
hundred acres hereby granted paid unto our Treasury by Solomon Hinton have given 
and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto the sd Solomon Hinton a 
Tract of Land containing one Hundred and fifty Acres-lying and being in our County 
of Johnston on the North Side of Nuce River Beginning at a burch on the River his 
own upper corner and runs thence along his own line North thirteen digrees east 
one hundred and thirty pole to a stake his other corner thence along his other 
line est one hundred thirty pole (_______________) South eighty eight pole to a 
stake in te center of Two read oaks near Hintons Creek thence west fortyeight pole 
to a red oak  Isaac Hintons corner thence along his line south thirty digrees west 
one hundred and forty ole to a red oak his other corner on the River thence up the 
mainders thereof to the beginning.

As by the plat hereunto annexed doth appear together with all woods & land belonging 
or appertaining.  To hold to the said William Hinton his heirs and assigns forever 
yielding and paying to us such sums of money yearly or otherwise as our General 
Assembly from time to time may direct proved allways that the said William Hinton 
shall cause his grant to be registered in the Registers Office of our said County of 
Johnston within Twelve months from the Date hereof otherwise the same shall be voyd 
and of no effect.  In testimony whereof we have caused our Great seal to be hereunto 
affixed witness Richard Caswell Esquire our Govnor Captain General and Commander in 
Chief at Kingston the Twelfth Day of December in the third year of our Independence 
and in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy nine.

R. C. Caswell

Recorded in the Secretary Office

Wm Sheppard

Johnston County, Nov Term 1779

Then was this grant presented in open court and ordered to be registered.

December 1st 1779

Wm Ward  Clk

Then was this grant registered in the registers Office of sd County in Book L, page 89.

John Smith

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