Lenoir County NcArchives History....Survey, 1793

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

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

BENJAMIN SUTTON SURVEY, 1793

[Squiggly line] 

396 acres 

[Drawing of polygonal-shaped perimeter of a parcel of land with 
inscribed words:]

Land down [document torn] of one Hundred [torn] to the ?? [torn] ?? 

State of North Carolina Dobbs County By Virtue of 3 Warrants No. 70, 
73 & 7? On the date the 22nd day of August 1793 I have Surveyed for 
Benjamin Sutton a Tract of Land Containing Three hundred and Ninety 
Six acres On Bucklesberry Pocosin Begining [sic.] at a Sweet gum on 
said Pocosin and Lands with a line of Simon Herring Patent North fifty 
West ??? poles to the Center of three ??? forty East one hundred and 
sixty poles then No. East forty seven poles toared a P. Stu[mp] ??? 
Simon Herring Survey then ?? [torn]

END OF DOCUMENT

Comments:

Squiggly line appears to represent the Neuse River, given the geographic 
proximity of other Benjamin Sutton land that was known to be located in 
Bucklesberry. Document is torn at the bottom, suggesting there is more 
language to this survey that is missing.