Jones County NcArchives Deed.....North Carolina, State Of - Rhodes, Jacob 1799 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sloan S. Mason http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003873 November 21, 2017, 4:07 pm Written: 1799 Register of Deeds Office Jones Co. Bk. 1, p. 308 Land Grant to Jacob RHODES 3 Feb 1799 #824 State of North Carolina To all to Whom these presents shall come greeting, Know Ye that we for in consideration of the sum of fifty shillings for every hundred acres hereby granted paid into our Treasury by Jacob RHODES have given & granted & by these presents do give & grant unto the said Jacob RHODES a tract of land containing forty acres lying & being in the County of Jones on the North side of Tuckahoe Creek the fork of sd. creek & Grate Branch beginning at the sum of sd. branch at a stake the center of a maple water oak and black gum & runs S 25 W 24 poles to a stake Wm. PARREY'S corner of his patent thence with his line S 34 E 108 poles to a large cypress on the edge of the run of Tuckahoe Creek then N 50 E 70 poles down the meanders of said creek to the mouth of sd. great branch thence up the meanders of the sum to the Beginning Entered the 3rd of January 1799 as by the plat hereunto annexed doth appear together with all woods waters mines minerals hereditaments & appurtenances tot he sd. land belonging or appertaining to hold to the sd. Jacob RHODES his heirs and assigns forever yielding & 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 grantee shall save this grant to be registered in the register's office or our sd. County of Jones written twelve months from the date hereof otherwise the same shall be void & of no affect. In Testimony whereof we have named there our letters to be made patent & our great seal to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benjm. WILLIAMS, Esquire our Governor, Captain General & Commander in Chief at Raleigh the 18th day of December in the XXV year of our Independence & in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred. B. WILLIAMS By Command Will WHITE, Secretary Recorded in the Secretary's Office B. H. COVINGTON, P. Sec. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb