ORANGE COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - North Carolina to Nathaniel Christmas
			    8 Dec 1797



Orange County, North Carolina Deed Book 7 p450

State to Nathaniel Christmas    No  1,325

To all to whom these presents shall come greeting.  Know ye that we for
and in consideration of the sum of fifty shillings for every hounded
acres hereby granted paid into our treasury by Nathaniel Christmas have
given and granted and by these presents so give and grant unto the said
Nathaniel Christmas tract of land containing two hundred and fifty acres
lying and in the county of Orange adjoining land of Strudwick lying in
that part commonly called the grove between Strudwick's lower and middle
tracts.  Beginning at a Post Oak a corner of Thomas Lasey running thence
along his line east twelve chains to a Post Oak on the Fayetteville road
thence along another of Lasey's line and the road south thirteen degrees
east seven chains to a stake on Strudwick's  line thence along the same
north twenty-nine degrees east sixty-one chains to a stake on the
Moccasin Branch thence north fifty degrees west seventy-two chains to a
stake on a line Strudwick's middle tract thence along the same one
hundred and fourteen chains to a stake Lafley's  line thence also the
same to the beginning.  Warrant dated the 17th  one thousand seven
hundred and ninety-seven as by the plat hereunto annexed doth appear
with all ways, woods, waters, mines, minerals, profits, heredelaments
and appurtenances there unto belonging or anywise appertaining to hold
to the said Nathaniel Christmas his heirs and assigns forever yields and
paying to us such sums of money yearly as our General Assembly from time
to time may direct provided always that the said grantee shall cause
this grant to be enrolled in the Registers Office in the said county of
Orange within the time limited by la otherwise the same shall be void. 
In testimony whereof we have caused these our letters to be mage patents
and our great seal to be hereunto affixed.  Witness Samuel Ashe, Esquire
our Governor Captain General and Commander in Chief at Raleigh the 8th
day of December in the 22nd year of our Independence and in the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.
				Samuel Ashe
By Command
	Jn Glasgon Surelacy
Delivered  Charles Christmas


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