Wayne County, NC - Deeds

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Elton G. Cooke <egcoo@aol.com>

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

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STATE of NORTH-CAROLINA  NO. 134

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 Five Hundred 
and Ten Acres, lying and being in our County of Wayne on the north side of Aycocks 
Swamp Beginning at a W. Oak Joshua Davis's corner on said swamp in David Newman's 
line and running with said line west one hundred and seventy two poles to a pine in 
Newsoms branch then north one hundred and ninety pole to a pine in John Kings line, 
then with the same East Twenty poles to a red oak in said line then North one hundred 
and fifty poles to an oak then East thirty two poles to Silas Hollowell's corner a 
pine then South Sixty five East thirty six poles to a water oak in Weavers Branch 
being an agreed line between said Cook and Silas Hollowell then down th! e said 
branch South Eighty five East one hundred and eighty five pole to a Sweet Gum in 
said branch then with Joshua Davis's line 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 
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 Secretary

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**Source: N. C. State Archives microfilm S.108.160.14N, Secretary of State Land Grant 
Record Books, Vol. 58, p. 70.

//Contributor's notes:   Thomas Cook was one of the seven sons of Jones and Martha 
Cook of Wayne County. The above was one of two grants of land in Wayne County from the 
State of North Carolina to Thomas Cook which bore the date of Sept. 30, 1785.

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