Rowan-Davidson County NcArchives Deed.....Ellis, Willis - North Carolina, State Of April 24, 1784 ************************************************ 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: Robert Ellis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004075 and Linda Ellis January 20, 2007, 4:35 pm Land Survey Written: April 24, 1784 Land Grant To Willis Ellis 35.1 Acres (net) – Rowan Co., NC – 24 April 1784 No. 2682 James Brandon Entry Officer of Claims for Lands in the County of Rowan. To the Surveyor of said County, Greeting. You are hereby required to lay off and Survey for Willis Ellis a Tract or parcel of Land Containing Fifty---- Acres lying in the County aforesd on Potts’s Creek joining the lines of Maxwell Chambers, William Denham and his Own Land. Observing the Directions of the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided for Turning out Lands. Two just and fair plans of such survey with this Warrant to the Secretary’s office without Delay. Given under my hand at Salisbury this Twenty fourth Day of April Anno. Dom. 1784. Ja. Brandon Rowan County Willis Ellis No. 2223 Book 67, Page 137 Issued 25 Oct 1786 Entry No. 2682 On both sides of Potts Creek State of North Carolina By virtue of a warrant No. 2682 dated April 24th 1784 surveyed for Willis Ellis a tract of land lying in Rowan County on both sides of Potts’s Creek beginning at a dead birch Maxwell Chambers’s corner on the bank of sd creek running thence with his line North ten degrees West twenty one chains and twenty five links to a stake thence West fifteen chains to a stake the corner of the said Willis Ellis’s Deeded Land thence South twenty one chains to a Dead hickory his other corner thence East to the beginning containing thirty five acres & one chain surveyed May 14th, 1785. By W. Moore, D.S. John Fulwider}___ S.C.B. Thomas Ellis } Transcribed by Bob & Linda Ellis Duluth Ga. Additional Comments: Order to survey land Grant File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/rowan/deeds/northcar155gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb