Wilkes County NcArchives Deed.....Morgan, Benjamine - North Carolina, State Of October 23, 1785
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Written: October 23, 1785

Wilkes County, North Carolina
Deed Book A-1, p. 268, Grant #148

To all to whome these presents Shall come Greeting
Know ye that we for and Inconsideration of the Sum of fifty Shillings for 
every hundred acres hereby granted & Sold have given Paid unto our Treasury 
Benjamine Morgan have given & granted by these presents do give & grant unto 
the Said Benj Morgan A Tract of Land containing Six hundred & forty acres 
Lying & being in our County of Wilkes on the middle fork of Roaring River 
Beginning at three white oaks in a bottom near the fork of Brush Creek & 
Runing West Two hundred & forty Eight poles to two Post oaks & a red oak near 
Larken Clevelands Waggon path Then South Thirty Seven Degrees West one hundred 
& Twenty Poles to two Maples & a beach on the South bank of Sd. Creek it being 
the conditional line between Ann Nanl.(?) Rose & B. Morgan Then South Twenty 
one poles to three white oaks in Sd. Clevelands line Then East Thirty two 
poles along Said line to two pines and a Red oak it being Sd. Clevelands 
corner trees then South Two hundred and forty three poles along Sd. Clevelands 
line to a pine and Small span or Ash oak (?) Sapling then East Two hundred & 
ninety poles to a post oak & Two white oaks Saplings then North three hundred 
& Sixty poles to the first Station ~ Including Sd. Morgans Improvements.
	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 Benjamin Morgan 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 direct provided always 
that the Said Benjamine Morgan  Shall cause this grant to be Registered in the 
Registers office of our Said County of Wilkes 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 
Alexander Martin Esquire our governor captain general and commander in Chief 
at Fairfield the Twenty third day of October in the Seventh year of our 
Independence and in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty 
Five.
	By his Excellys Comd		Alex. Martin
	J. Glasgow Sec

			Recorded in the Secretarys Office
					W. Williams




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