Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-01-10


BY VIRTUE Of a certain Deed Of
Trust executed by the lhte D. II. Nor
nson to the Undersigned. and daily re-
corded in tina Rsgistry Of Richmond
County, Book 80, Page t72, and the
following, we will sell TO- the highest
bidder foc cash at the courthouse, in
the town If Rockingham, Richmond
County, NJ c.. ON the 18th day Of Janu.
airy, 1918. at twelve O'Clock. noon,
nine tracts or parcels Of land, lying
ard being in Richmond County, and
described as follows, towit:
"FIRST TRACT:-Lying and being
ID Richmond County, North Carolina,
and in Marks Greek Township,-Be-
ginning at a post oak, now down, three
black jack pointers, on the lower y de
Of Melons branch, near foul md
North side of Marks Creek, the be-
ginning corner of the Murdoch Nc
Kinnon 300 acre survey, then with
it's line N. II w. SO 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
corner also of the Grant 75-acre
tract, then with its line N. - T.. 2S
chains and Is links to its other cor
ner, thence with it's other line S. As
E. 2S chains and rs links to a corner
in the line of the Smith 150-aere
tract, then with its line N. As e. 19
chains to its corner, then as it's line
S. 40 E. 6 IL 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 s
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
ii chains, and rs links to corner in
the Grant lands in the head of the
said Douglas Spring Branch, and Their
down the various courses of sale
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 6
line will strike the beginning thai
runs a 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 thu
Superior Court of Richmond County
in Book entitled ESTATES etc." 184S
to 1858, at page 444, reference Il
which is hereby made; excepting from
the above boundaries all of said lant
situate on the west side of the Ben
nettsville and Rockingham Publ
Road, conveyed to Archie Morrison
said exception containing about IL
acres. .s= .r,> r.,
SECOND TRACT:-Lying and be
ing in Richmond County, Marks Cree
Township, adjoining the lands o
Catherine McFayden, G. J. Freeman
and others described as follows:
BEGINNING at the corner Of tn
dover "a sycamore tree) by tn
road North side of Marks Creek ant
runs as the road leading to BENEFITS
vile 7 chs, crossing Marks Creek
thence as said road S. E. IL chs
thence S. Is degrees E. A chs, to
stake in said road, a hickory an
black jack pointers; thence N. 6
degrees E. II chs, to poplar tree il
the West edge of branch, blacl
gum pointer; thence N. 9 W. 7.5
chs, to high water mark, or as tn
back water may go when dam i
raised then up said Marks Creek a
long the edge of high water mark a
far as the water may go if it shoul
not reach beyond the upper line o
the Gill land; thence to the run o
said Creek; thence up said Creek a
far as the back water may go; theme
as a line of the lands conveyed b
Murdoch Morrison to David Gill o.
the 7th day of December, 1854, eros
sing said Creek to high water mar
on the opposite side; thence as tn
edge of the pond nearly to the Nil
Dam; thence as its other line throug
the garden by a peach tree; theme
as its other line direct to the begin
ming, containing 300 acres, more o
less, and being the lands conveye
to D. M. Morrison by D. D. Gill an
wife by deed recorded in Book T. T
page 1886, of the office of the Registe
of Deeds for Richmond County.
THIRD TRACT:-Lying and bein
in Richmond County, Marks Cree
Township, being the share allotted t
Samuel Russ in the division of tn
estate lands of John Russ among hi
heirs at law,-Beginning at stalk
three black jack pointers, in the lin
of Daniel McLeod's fifty acre tract
and in chains east of large pin.
the beginning corner of said trac
north of the plantation Of said Nc
Leod heirs, and runs with said trac
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