Transcript of the records of John Whitsett's 1778 land grant in Orange County, North Carolina

John Whitsett 1778 Land Grant
On The Waters of Back Creek
Orange County, North Carolina
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Order to Survey & Cover

Orange
John Whitsett
200 acres  no 425
B.C.
Nov 17, 1778
[survey was completed 27 July 1782]

 

STATE of NORTH CAROLINA                                                                         No. 425

JOHN BUTLER,
Entry Officer of Claims for
Lands in the County of Orange.

To the SURVEYOR of the said County, Greeting.

You are hereby required, as soon as may be to lay off and survey, for John Whitsett a Tract or Parcel of Land, containing two hundred Acres, lying in the County aforesaid, on both sides of Back Creek a branch of Haw River, Bounded by land of Thomas Hart and John Logue on the south, Including his improvement Observing the Directions of the Act of Assembly in such Case made and provided for running out Lands.  Two just and fair Plans of such Survey, with a proper Certificate annexed to each, you are to transmit, with this Warrant, to the Secretary's Office without Delay.

GIVEN under my Hand at Mount Pleasant the Seventeenth Day of November Anno Dom. 1778

John Butler Esq.   

Survey and Sketch

[Seal] Orange County        Plated to a scale
         North Carolina         of 20 Chs. [chains] to an inch
              State

This plan represents a tract of land survey'd for John Whitsett Lying on both sides of Back Creek of Haw River adjoyning the lands of Thos. Hart & John Logue. Beginning at a Black Oak on the side of a great road Leading to Hilsborough Running thence South fifty Degs. East forty nine Chs. to a Black Jack then South fifteen Chs. to a stake in an old field then West fifty seven Chs. to a Post oak then North forty eight Chs. to a Post oak then East Nineteen Chs. to the first station Containing 200 acres
Survey'd 27th July 1782

Thos. Logue      [sworn to by]                     Thos. Mulhollan
Samuel Whitsett

North Carolina Land Grants, Orange County; North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina
The ordinary Gunter's or surveyor's chain is sixty-six feet or four poles long, and is composed of one hundred links, connected each to each by two rings, and furnished with a tally mark at the end of every ten links.
["Backsights" Magazine published by Surveyors Historical Society]
Ronald N. Wall
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