Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1917-12-20

SmlCnS lou acre CfacI, IN. oU - .
.hains to corner, four marked pines
IN the West of Hugh's Branch, thence
J. As E. 25 chains to a corner in the
Marks Greek Swamp, thence S. as w.
g chains to corner; thence N. 45 w.
Il chains, and rs, links to corner in
he Grant lands in the head of the
aid Douglas Spring Branch, and then
Town the various courses of said
ranch until the course S. 81 w. will
itrike the Cheraw Road, Northwest
f the Gun Smith Shop, thence with
the road S. 5 E. 10 chs. and 80 link.
o the edge of Marks Creek, thence
Town the edge of said creek until 3
inc will strike the beginning that
'uns North course, containing a.
bout 450 acres, including the dwelling
louse and other improvements, allot
ted to Catherine Morrison, afterwards
Catherine McFayden, widow of Nal
,om C. Morrison, deceased, and 9th
ers, jury summoned to allot her dow
n in the lands of her deceased hus--
band, the said Malcolm C. Morrison
he 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." 184e
to 1858, 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 100
acres
SECOND TRACT:-Lying and be-
ing in Richmond County, Marks Creek
Township, adjoining the lands OF
Catherine McFayden, G. j. Freeman
and others described as follows:
BEGINNING at the corner of the
dover Ga sycamore tree) by the
toad North side of Marks Creek and
runs as the road leading to Benefits
vile z chs, crossing Marks Creek;
thence as said road S. z E. 10 chs.
thence S. Is degrees E. a chs, to a
stake in said road, a hickory and
black jack pointers; thence N. 81
degrees E. II chs, to a poplar tree in
the West edge Of a branch, a black
gum pointer; thence N. 9 w. 7.50
chs, to a high water mark, or as the
back water may 60 when 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 Greek to high water mark
on the opposite side; thence as the
edge of the pond nearly to the Mill
Dam; thence as its other line through
the garden by a peach tree; thence
as its other line direct to the begin
ming, containing 300 acres, more or
less, and being the lands conveyed
to D. NJ. 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 5 chains east of large pine,
the beginning corner of said tract,
north of the plantation of said Nc
Leod heirs, and runs with said tract
Z. 14.75 chains to the corner of said
McI.eod's tract, stake and three
black jack pointers; thence S. Is chs;
thence S. Sd E. 1850 chains crossing
q branch below spring to corner:
thence N. so E. Is chains: thence N.
70 W. So chains; thence direct to the
beginning, on both sides of the road
leading from Rockingham to Morri-
sons Mill, containing 100 acres, more
or less.
FOURTH TRACT Lying and be
ing in Richmond C.,nty, Marks Greek
Township, Beginning at a stake among
three large pines, the Mcleod cor
ner, and runs East so chains to D. w
McIntyre's corner; thence as his line
North 80 West q chains to his cor
ner in the Cole line; then as said Cole
line West % chains to his corner;
then direct to the beginning, con-
tanning so acres, more or less, and
being the same tract of land that was
decided to Sarah F. Smith by John D.
Shaw and wife.
FIFTH TRACT:--Lyiny and being
in Richmond County, Marks Creek
MISUNDERSTANDING at stake, two
pines and two black jack pointers,
south IL Speeds old road and the cor
ner of Duncan McIntyre's so acre sur
vey and runs West % chains ia
Hunts line; then North 80 chains to
the Green Pond Road. then with said