Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1917-12-13
TRUSTEES SALE OF LARGE AND
VALUABLE FARMS NEAR
HAMLET.

AAuot CACCuISu ny til- LdUS ~. w. MOI
rison to the undersigned, and duly re-
corded in the Registry of Richmond
County, Book 80, Page 172, and the
following, we will sell to the highest
bidder for cash at the courthouse, in
the town Of Rockingham, Richmond
County, N. c., on the 18th day of Janu.
, a+y, 1918, at IL o'clock, noon,
nine tracts or parcels of land, lying
and being in Richmond County, and
described as follows, towit:
"FIRST TRACT:-Lying and being
in Richmond County, North Carolina,
and in Marks Creek Township,-Be-
ginning at post oak, now down, three
black jack pointers, on the lower side
Of Melton's branch, near f--' ~,I
North side of Marks Creek, the be-
ginning corner of the Murdoch Nc
Kinnon 300 acre survey, then with
its line N. II w. 33 chains to it's cor
ner, thence with its other line E. "a
chains to its other corner near the
head of Douglas Spring Branch, ard
"a corner also of the Grant 75-acre
tract, then with its line N. - T.. 26
chains and rs links to its other cor
ner, thence with its other line S. As
E. % chains and rs links to corner
in the line Of the Smith 15O-acre
tract, then with its line N. As E. 10
chains to it's corner, then as it's line
s. 40 E. 6 1-2 chains to another cor
ner of said tract, thence as its other
line S. 80 E. 10 chs. to its corner, be-
ing also the beginning corner of a
fifty acre tract, now (then) William
Freeman's, thence as the line of
Smiths $50 acre tract, N. 60 E 5
chains to a corner, four marked pines
on the West of Hugh's Branch, thence
S. As E. rs chains to a corner in the
Marks Creek Swamp, thence S. As w.
46 chains to corner; thence N. as w.
Al chains, and rs links to a corner in
the Grant lands in the head of the
said Douglas Spring Branch, and then
down the various courses of said
branch until the course S. 81 W. will
strike the Cheraw Road, Northwest
of the Gun Smith Shop, thence with
the road S. 5 E. 10 chs. and 80 links
to the edge of Marks Creek, thence
down the edge of said creek until
line will strike the beginning that
runs North course, containing a.
bout 450 acres, including the dwelling
house and other improvements, allot-
ted to Catherine Morrison, afterwards
Catherine McFayden, widow Of NAL
com c. Morrison, deceased, and 9TH
ers, jury summoned to allot her dow
err in the lands of her deceased hus-
band, the said Malcolm C. Morrison,
the report of said jury being on rec
ord in the Office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Richmond County,
in Book entitled ESTATES etc." 184S
to 1853, at page 444, reference to
which is hereby made; excepting from
the above boundaries all of said land
situate on the west side of the Ben
nettsville and Rockingham Public
Road, conveyed to Archie Morrison,
said exception containing about 1870
acres.
SECOND TRACT:-Lying and be-
ing in Richmond County, Marks Greek
Township, adjoining the lands of
Catherine McFayden, G. J. Freeman
and others described as follows:
BEGINNING at the corner of the
dover "a sycamore tree) by the
road North side of Marks Creek and
runs as the road leading to BENEFITS
vile Z chs, crossing Marks Greek;
thence as said road S. z E. IS chs,
thence S. Is degrees E. chs, to a
stake in said road, a hickory and
black jack pointers; thence N. 81
degrees E. II chs, to poplar tree in
the West edge of a branch, a black
gum pointer; thence N. 9 w. 7.5O
chs, to a high water mark, or as the
back water may go when a dam is
raised then up said Marks Creek a.
long the edge of high water mark as
far as the water may go if it should
not reach beyond the upper line of
the Gill land; thence to the run of
said Creek; thence up said Creek as
far as the back water may go; thence
as a line of the lands conveyed by
Murdoch Morrison to David Gill on
the 7th day of December, 1854, eros
sing said Creek to high water mark
on the opposite side; thence as the
edge of the pond nearly to the Mill
Dam; thence as it's other line through
the garden by peach tree; thence
as its other line direct to the begin
ming, containing 800 acres, more or
less, and being the lands conveyed
to D. M. Morrison by D. D. Gill and
wife by deed recorded in Book T. T.,
page 1856, of the office of the Register
of Deeds for Richmond County.
THIRD TRACT:-Lying and being
in Richmond County, Marks Creek
Township, being the share allotted to
Samuel Russ in the division of the
estate lands of John Russ among his
heirs at law,-Beginning at stake
three black jack pointers, in the line
of Daniel McLeod's fifty acre tract,
and in chains east of a large pine,
the beginning corner of said tract,
north of the plantation of said Nc
Leod heirs, and runs with said tract
E. 14.75 chains to the corner of said
McLeod's tract, a stake and three