Orange County NcArchives Deed.....Clark, Thomas - North Carolina, State Of September 29, 1778 ************************************************ 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 23, 2006, 3:22 am Written: September 29, 1778 Recorded: October 18, 1778 North Caroline State Archives, Orange Co, Microfilm #S.108.948, Land Grants, Book #40, page #372, No. 1055, Grant No. 129, entry no. 370, 117 acres: State of North Carolina, Entry No. 370 “John Butler, Entry Officer of claims for lands in the County of Orange. To the surveyor of the said county, greeting. You are hereby required, as soon as may be, to lay off and survey for Thomas Clark, a tract or parcel of land containing two hundred and fifty acres [conflicting reportage of acres between entry taker and surveyor], lying in the county aforesaid, on the waters of Nunn’s Creek, a branch of Eno, bounding on the land of James Hogg, Daniel Cloud, Martin ?Malmer?, Henry Sills, and Thomas Tullock, including his improvements.” “Observing the directions of the Act of the Assembly in such case, made and provided for running out lands. Two just and fair plans of such survey, with a proper certificate annexed to each, you are to transmit with this warrant, to the secretary’s office without delay. Given under my hand at Mount Pleasant, the 29th day of September 1778. John Butler. E. T.” “Plotted to a scale of 30 ?DW to an inch This plan represents a tract of [land] lying Orange County on the waters of Nunn’s Creek bounded on the north by Cloud, on the east by Hogg, on west by Tullock, on the south by ?Pancer, surveyed for Thomas Clark beginning at a ??? running north 46 D. W.? to 150 East 25?-50 links, to a H, south 46 D.W. to a B.G., west 25-50 links to the first station. Surveyed October 18 1778. H. L. Taylor, Surveyor, John Mitchel, William Clark, ?Chain Carriers?” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/orange/deeds/northcar94gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb