Washington County NcArchives Deed.....Downing, William - Proprietor, Lords 1719
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Written: 1719

Lords Proprietor Land Grant to William Downing - 1719
Washington County NC, Deed Book "C", pg 172

His Excellency John Ld. Carteret palatine and the rest of the true & absolute 
Lords proprietors of Carolina.  To all to whom these presents shall come 
Greeting in our Lord God everlasting Know ye that we the said Lords & absolute 
proprietors according to our Great Deed of Grant bearing date the first day of 
May Anno Dom 1668.  Given to our County of Albemarle and in our hand & Great 
Seal of our Sd. Province do hereby give and grant unto William Downing a Tract 
of Land Containing Six hundred & Six acres lying in Chowan or precinct on the 
South Shore.  Beginning at a Red Oak on Kendricks Creek, thence East Three 
hundred and twenty pole to a White oak then through the pocoson So. 15 Et. Six 
hundred & Forty pole to a bounded White Oak, then west 18 Dgs. So. One hundred 
& twenty pole along a branch to a hickory thence along the Courses of Kendrick 
Creek to the first Station, which Land was formerly Survey'd by Thomas Blount, 
and by the Said Thomas Blounts land Will & Testament given to his Son Jacob 
Blount, and by the Said Jacob Blount Assigned and Transferred to the Said 
William Downing.  To have and to hold the said Land with all the rights, and 
previledges of Hunting Hawking Fishing & Fowling with all wood and waters & 
Rivers, with profits commodities and hereditaments to the Same belonging or 
appertaining Except the one half of all Gold and Silver mines unto him the 
said William Downing his Heirs and Assigns for ever; in as large and ample a 
manner to all intents and purposes as in by the said Deed is Granted or 
intended yielding and paying to us our Heirs and Assigns yearly the free Rent 
of One Shilling for every Fifty Acres hereby Granted to be holden of us, our 
Heirs and Assigns etc. provided that the said William Downing  his Heirs and 
Assigns etc. Planted thereon within three years after the date hereof then 
this Patent to be void otherwise to Stand and be in full force and virtue - 
Given under the Seal of the Colony this the Sixth day of August 1719.  Witness 
our trusty and well beloved Charles Eden Esq. Governer and the rest of our 
trusty and well beloved Councilers who have hereunto set their hands.

                                                Charles Eden
                                                Thos. Pollok
                                                Wm. Reed

Redorded in the Secretarys office
         Jas. Lovick


Washington County
September Term 1808
     Appeared in Open Court Richard Downing and introduced the foregoing 
instrument of Writing and Ordered Registered.
                                        M. Byrd ClCt

Registered the 29th April 1809            Jas. Jones Rgr.


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