CARTER COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - State of North Carolina to Nathan Lewis 100 Acres on Gap Creek, 10 Nov 1795 ----¤¤¤---- Carter Co., TN DB A, p. 231: State of North Carolina No. 1203 Transcribed by: Robert W. Keyes Apr 12, 2005 Source: LDS FHL film #847621 State of North Carolina 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 treas- ury by Nathan Lewis have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto the said Nathan Lewis a tract of land containing one hundred acres lying and being in our County of Washington upon Gap Creek Beginning at a Chestnut oak a forked maple and dogwood Corner to Webb and Little, thence North Sixty poles to a white oak, then North fifty six degrees East one hundred poles to a Chestnut & Sourwood then then South th- irty degrees East one hundred and Eighteen poles to a small black oak then South fifty seven degrees west one hundred and seventy poles to a stake in said Webbs and Little line, then North eighty poles to the Beginning including the spring in the ???? as by the plat hereunto annexed doth appear together with all woods, waters, mines, minerals, hereditaments and appurte- nances to the said land belonging or appertaining To hold to the said Nathan Lewis his heirs and assigns forever yielding and paying to us such sums of money yearly or otherwise as our Gen- eral Assembly from time to time may direct Provided always that the said Nathan Lewis shall cause this grant to be Regis- tered in the Registers Office of our said County of Washington with- in twelve months from the date hereof otherwise the same shall be void and of no effect, In Testimony whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent and our great seal to be hereunto affixed Witness Richard Dobbs Spaight Esquire our Governor Captain General and Commander in Chief at Raleigh the tenth day of Novr in the Twentyeth year of our In- dependence and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety five By Command Richd Dobbs Spaight J Glasgow Secretary Registered October the 22nd 1799 ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Bob Keyes ___________________________________________________________________