Rowan County NcArchives Deed.....Dickey, James - Grant, Grant May 6, 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: Joseph H. Howard jhhoward@comcast.net May 12, 2007, 5:53 pm Written: May 6, 1778 Recorded: November 4, 1784 James Dickey (d.1796) Rowan County NC 1778 6 May (Surveyed 15 July 1778, Issued 4 November 1784). 600 acres were entered for James Dickey in Rowan County "lying on Beaver Dam branch the Waters of Fourth creek. [cover] No. 1524 County Rowan Name Dickey, James Acres 600 Grant 917 Issued Nov. 4, 1784 Entry no. 96 Entered May 6, 1778 Book no. 51, page 303 Location Lying on the Beaverdam branch the waters of fourth creek To the SURVEYOR of the said County, Greeting You are hereby required, as soon as may be to lay off and survey, for James Dickey a Tract or Parcel of Land, containing Six hundred Acres, lying in the County aforesaid, situate and lying on Beaver Dam branch the waters of fourth Creek bounded by the lands of Michael Anderson, George Niblock, Thomas Johnston, James and Charles Bailey and John Dobbins, including the Improvement between the above mentioned Lands for Complement Plat No. 96 North Carolina Rowan County This plan represents a tract of Land lying on Beaver Dam branch the Waters of fourth creek surveyed for James Dickey. Beginning at a pine on John Dobbins line runs South twenty three degrees West sixty chains to a White oak on Thomas Johnstons Line west nineteen chains to a white oak said Johnstons corner south forty six chains to a Post oak West forty eight chains to a White oak, Robert Hugheys corner North sixty three chains to a black Jack said Dickeys corner North twenty one Degrees East nineteen chains to a black oak east seven chains to a black oak North fifty seven Degrees East ninety chains to a Black Oak said Dobbins corner. Thence East to the beginning Surveyed July 15 1778 by me James Bealey Griffith Rutherfords ? James Dickey File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/rowan/deeds/grant287gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb