Wayne County, NC - Deeds

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WAYNE COUNTY, NC - Land Grant - State of N. C. to Thomas Cook, 1785

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STATE of NORTH-CAROLINA  No. 99

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. KNOW YE, That We, for and in 
Consideration of the Sum of Fifty Shillings for every Hundred Acres hereby granted, 
paid into our Treasury by Thomas Cook - have Given and Granted, and by these Presents 
do Give and Grant unto the said Thomas Cook a Tract of Land, containing Two Hundred 
Acres, lying and being in our County of Wayne Begining at a pine on the side of the 
road Richd. Durden's Corner and running with his line North Thirty East Ninety two 
poles to the Corner a pine then with his other line North Sixty poles to a pine Isaac 
Woods's Corner then With his line East One hundred and Sixty poles to the Corner a 
pine on a prong of the Watery branch then down the said prong South forty two East 
One hundred and Twenty two poles to a popular in Said Branch then South Thirty two 
East Twenty poles to a Sweet Gum in or Near Richard Brasswell's line then With or 
Near the same West eighty poles to a pine, then North Thirty two poles! to a pine 
then West eighty poles to a W. Oak, then South One hundred and sixteen poles to a 
pine, then to the Begining 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 Thomas Cook his Heirs and Assigns, 
for ever.  Yielding and paying to us such Sums of Money yearly, or otherwise, as our 
General Assembly from Time to Time may direct.  PROVIDED ALWAYS, That the said Thomas 
Cook shall cause this Grant to be registered in the Register's Office of our said 
County of Wayne within Twelve Months from the Date hereof, otherwise the same shall 
be void and of no Effect.  IN TESTIMONY whereof, we have caused our Great Seal to be 
hereunto affixed. Witness RICHARD CASWELL, Esquire, our Governor, Captain-General, 
and Commander in Chief, at Kingston, the Thirtieth Day of September in the tenth Year 
of our Independence and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and 
Eighty five

(Signed) R. Caswell

By His Excelly's Comd.

(Signed) J. Glasgow Sec.

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**Source:  N.C. State Archives, microfilm S108.160.14N, Secretary of State Land Grant 
Record Books, Vol. 58, p. 33.

//Contributor's notes:  The land involved in this grant is slightly to the north and 
several miles east of Eureka in Wayne County. Thomas Cook was one of the seven sons of 
Jones and Martha Cook of Wayne County.  The names of the other individuals are spelled 
exactly as they appear in the document. That said,  I have seen the individual named 
Richard Durden referred to in other documents as Richard Durdeno and the individual 
referred to as Isaac Woods may actually have been Isaac Woodard.

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