Lenoir County NcArchives History....Land Grant, 1794

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Joe P. Sutton, PhD, sutton@edtesting.com, June 28, 2017.

Clellan Sutton Collection, Bucklesberry Community, La Grange, NC.

BENJAMIN SUTTON LAND GRANT, 1794

STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA, No. 959 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL 
COME GREETINGS KNOW Ye, That We, for and in consideration of the sum 
of Thirty Shillings for every hundred acres hereby granted, paid into 
our Treasury by Benjamin Sutton have given and granted, and by these 
presents do give and grant unto the said Benjamin Sutton a tract of 
land, containing Three Hundred and ninety six [empty space] acres, 
lying and being in our County of Dobbs in Bucklesberry Pocosin Beginning 
at Sweet gum on ?? Pocosin and Runs with a line of Simon Herrings Patent 
north fifty West one hundred and Twelve Poles to the Center of ?? Small 
oak tree South forty East one hundred and Sixty Poles then North Sixty 
three East forty seven Poles to a Red oak Stump on a Corner of Simon 
Herrings Survey then north fifty two East fifty ?? and a half Poles to 
a Pine then north Seventy five East one hundred and Twenty to a white 
oak Suttons own Corner then with his own line with north Seventy five 
East Seventy two Poles to a water oak and then on his own Corner then 
with his other line West Sixty East fifty two Poles to an Oak near Oak 
[torn] ?? his own Beginning Corner of John Giles Survey then [tear] north 
Sixty Poles East Sixty six ?? [torn] north eighty one Poles one hundred 
fifty four Poles [tear] to his own Land Patent.

[Back side]

Entered in the Register’s Office Lenoir County the 9th day of July ?? 
Lord 1794 By D. Caswell R? [elaborate squiggles]

END OF DOCUMENT

Comments:

The front side of this deed indicates the 396-acre tract of land was 
located in Dobbs County, yet it was entered in the Registry’s Office in 
Lenoir County in 1794. However, Lenoir County was formally established 
three years earlier in 1791 and was subdivided from the east side of old 
Dobbs County.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbs_County,_North_Carolina 

In the Clellan Sutton Collection is a 1793 dated survey of this same 
396-acre tract of land to Benjamin Sutton.