Lenoir County NcArchives History....John Sutton Survey ca. 1757

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Joe P. Sutton, PhD, sutton@edtesting.com, June 25, 2017.

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

JOHN SUTTON SURVEY, ca. 1757

[Diagram indicates ‘275 Ac’]

North Carolina Surveyed for John Sutton a Plantation Containing two hundred and
Seventy five Acres of land lying in the County of Johnston ?? Bucklesbury Begining
at a White Oak Tho. Uzzells corner land No. 68 W. 31 po. to a Red Oak John Rous
corner then along his line W. 90 po. to a Water Oak Then N. 50. W. 100 P. to a Hickory
Then N. 80 W. 138 P. to a Maple Then So. 45 W. 66 P. to a Pine Then So. 7 E. 120 P.
to the Land at said Sutton lives on (taken up by John Giles) Then along the lines of
said land to Uzzells line & then with the same No. 20 E. 80 P. to the begining. ??
?? Surv.
 
[back side]
 
John Donny	 }  Chainbearers		
Jno. Donny junr  }

Comments:

John Sutton (b. ca. 1730; d. bef. 1773), per Martha Mewborn Marble, www.olddobbers.net. 

Document is undated. Old Dobbs County (unnamed in document) was not established until
1758 from eastern Johnston County, and Johnston County (named in document) was established
in 1746 and remained in its larger geographic size until 1758. The identified tract of
land,further identified in Bucklesberry, provides evidence that this land was located in
Old Dobbs County, specifically, in the eastern split-off from Johnston County.

See http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nc/state2/amap/nccf.html
 
Acreage surveyed in this document is consistent with a 1757 Land Patent #960 issued to
John Sutton [c.f., Colony of North Carolina Land Patents, 1735-1764, by Margaret Hoffman],
which reads: John Sutton - 25 May 1757 - 275 acres in Johnston Co in Bucklesberry adj
Thomas Uzzell,John Row and lands sd Sutton lives on (which was) taken up by John Giles.

Therefore, this document has been assigned a circa date of 1757.