ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - Brice Morris Property
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No. 2681
County: Onslow
Name: Morris, Brice
Acres: 60
Grant No. 1759
Issued: 25 Dec. 1852
Warrant No._______ Entry No. 889
Entered: 13 Aug 1851
Book No. 156 Page No. 365
Location: Joining Sanders, Melville and his own land.
North Carolina Onslow County Warrant No. 889 dated 13th August 1851. Surveyed 
for Brice Morris sixty acres of land in said county joining Sanders, Melville 
& his own land. Beginning at a stake in the center of spruce pines then along 
Sanders line reverse to 5 Et twenty poles to his. Come then along the other 
line reverse to 63 Et sixty poles to Melville's line then along his line to 27 
Wt sixty poles to a pine the corner in a meadow then along Melville's line to 
88 Et thirty eight poles to a pine the corner in Morris then along said line 
to 8 Wt forty poles to a marked black gum in the head of Mulberry branch then 
to 76 Wt one hundred fifty poles to the pocoson then along the pocoson to the 
Begining. 
			(signed) T. Larkins, Co Sur

State of North Carolina, Comptroller's Office, December 25th, 1852
It appears from a Receipt of the Public Treasurer, filed in this Office, that 
Brice Morris has paid the purchase money for an Entry of Land, containing 
sixty Acres, in the County of Onslow, which Entry is No. 889. 

			(signed) Wm J  Clarke, Comptroller

State of North Carolina, Onslow County, No. 889
I, Erasmus H. Coston Entry officer of claims for vacant lands in the county 
afore said to the Surveyor of said county you are hereby required to Survey 
for Brice Morris a tract of land in Onslow County containing one hundred acres 
adjoining the lands of D.. W. Sanders, the lands of Levi Melville and his own 
lands. Observing the direction of the act of Assembly in such case provided 
for running out lands. Two just and fair plans of Survey with a proper 
certificate annexed to each you are to transmit together with this warrant to 
the Secretary's office without delay. Entry bearing date the 13th day of 
August 1851 - Given under my hand at office the 13th day of August 1851. 

			(signed) E. H. Coston, E. T.

NOTE: There appears to be a discrepancy in the number of acres shown by Mr. 
Coston (100 acres) and the actual number surveyed (60 acres). There is a note 
by surveyor "Survey 60 acres only"

SOURCE: State of NC, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, Wake County, 
North Carolina, US.