Lincoln-Burke County NcArchives Deed.....Anthony, Philip - Carolina, State Of North March 10, 1779 ************************************************ 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 24, 2006, 2:14 am North Carolina State Archives, Microfilm S.108.566. Lincoln County Land Grants, No. 485, Grant #487, Entry # 1660, Book 44, page 217 Written: March 10, 1779 Recorded: February 28, 1780 State of North Carolina. No. 1660 Charles McDowell, entry officer of claims for land in the County of Burke. To the surveyor of said county, Greeting. You are hereby re____d as soon as may be to lay off and survey for PHILIP ANTONEY a tract or parcel of land containing 742 acres lying in the county aforesaid:” “Lying on the waters of Potses Creek including the land that William Sherrill formerly had surveyed, by virtue of a warrant out of the King’s ? office? and obtained a patent accordingly; beginning and running accordingly and including said the land specified in said patent entered March ye 10th 1779, observing the _____ of the Act of the Assembly in such case, made and provided for running out land to just and fair plans of such survey with a proper certificate annexed to such . You are to transmit with this warrant to the surveys office without delay, given unto my hand at office, the 6th day of January, 1780. C, McDowell, E. T.” State of North Carolina, Burke County [a plot map accompanies this description]. “This plan represents a tract of land surveyed for PHILIP ANTONEY containing 742 acres, lying on Pott’s Creek and bounded as follows: “Beginning at a white oak on a ridge on the south side of Welch’s or Jumping Branch and on the west side of Pott’s Creek and runs from thence north 62 degrees east with Warlick’s line 17 chains to Pott’s Creek Crossing same [or ‘some’] G___ 31 chains to a red oak, thence north 57 degrees east with Warlick’s line, 53 chains to a post oak on the northeast side of a meadow, thence north 42 degrees east with Sprat’s line, 31 chains to a red oak, thence north 26 degrees west, with Weathrow’s land, 33 chains to a white oak on the west side of a branch, thence south 78 degrees west with Weathrow’s land, 20 chains and half to a red oak, thence south 64 degrees west with Jacob Wertsell’s land, 28 chains to a red oak sapling on the south side of a branch, thence north 18 degrees west with Wertsell’s land, 18 and ½ chains to a post oak in Wertsell’s old line, thence with said line south 63 degrees west 17 chains to Pott’s Creek Crossing with said line and James Wilson’s line, 48 chains to a post oak in John Bradley’s line, thence with Bradley’s line, crossing Welch’s Branch with Warlick’s line, south 12 degrees east 77 chains to the beginning. Surveyed February 28th, 1780. C. W. Beekman, C. Surv. Jacob Wertsell, John Shuford, Chain Bearers. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/lincoln/deeds/carolina100gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb