State-Wide, NC - David Shults Land Grant, 1790

DAVID SHULTS - 50 ACRES - EASTERN DISTRICT, NC - 1790
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David Shults Grant, Regist. 15 June 1792
State of North Carolina No. 15

To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting ~
     
Know ye that we for and in consideration of the sum fifty shillings for 
every hundred acres of land hereby granted paid into our treasury by 
David Shults have given and granted and by these presents do give and 
grant unto the said David Shults a tract of land containing fifty acres 
lying and being in our Eastern District on the south side of Holston 
River on the waters of Honeycutt Creek Beginning on Mark Mitchell’s 
east line at a pine and white oak thence with said line one hundred and 
twenty six poles to a popular near a Branch thence north thirty six 
poles to a dogwood sapling on Dodson's west, and then along said line 
thirty six poles to two black gums on the road then north fifteen west 
eighty poles to a pine then down and west twenty seven poles to a pine 
and from thence a straight course to the beginning.
 
As by the plat hereunto Annexed doth appear together with all woods, 
waters, mines, minerals hereditaments and appurtenances to the said 
land belonging or appertaining to hold to the said David Shults his 
heirs and assigns forever yielding and paying to us such sums of 
[money] yearly or otherwise as our General Assembly from time to time 
may assess Provided always that the said David Shults shall cause this 
grant to be registered in the registrars office of our said Eastern 
District within twelve months from the date hereof otherwise the same 
shall be void and of no effect.
 
In testimony whereof we have caused this our letters to be made patent, 
and our Great Seal to be hereunto affixed Witness Alex. Martin, Esquire 
and Governor Captain General and commander in chief at Fayetteville the 
seventhteenth day of November in the fifteen year of our independence 
and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety.
 
Alex. Martin
 
By his Excellency Com.     
James Glasgow Secty.
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Transcribed (revised) by Mark E. Baze.  Source of the original document 
is:
McClung Historical Collection
East Tennessee Historical Society
Knoxville, TN
Note:  The present-day location of this property is Hawkins Co., TN.
For search purposes, this individual also appears in other records as 
David SHOULTS.  An alternative spelling would be David SHULTZ.  David 
Shults is the father of Mary Shults, wife and mother of the fourteen 
children of Abednego Baze (b.ca1783/5, VA).

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