Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-06-29
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SALE OF LAND.
Very truly.
". B. Cole

Under and by virtue OF the power
and authority conferred by Judg
ment of the Superior Court of Rich
mond County, North Carolina, on thu
18th day OF June, 1929, in certain
action therein pending entitled
Claude Gore VS.. Esther Douglas
and others, heirs at law of ScipiC
Douglas, deceased" the undersign
ed Commissioners will sell at public
auction i'll front of the Court House
door in the town of Rockingham
North Carolina, at u o'clock noon
on Monday, the Oath day of July
1929, to the highest bidder for cash
the following described tracts OF
land, to-Wit:
First Tract.
Beginning at an iron stake on the
South side OF the right of way OF
the Rockingham Railroad and runs
South 81 West 2640 feet to an iron
stake in the old Quick road; thence
down the various courses of said
road as follows: North 21-15 East
046.7 feet; North 17-5 East 30S feet;
North II IL East 324.3 feet; North
II IL East 429 feet; North Ills East
$685. feet; North IA East 1918 feet;
North 8 East 405.3 to an iron stake:
thence North SO East 1884 feet to
an iron stake; thence South 64-35
East 1904 feet to an iron stake;
thence North 20 East 669S feet;
thence South 71-45 East 1875 to a
stake, pine pointer; thence South
1915 West 6S1.6 feet to the beginn-
ing, and containing 1861 acres
more or less, and after deducting
railroad right of way This being
the same land purchased by S. D.
Douglas from Fairly Gibson and
wife by deed dated Nov. Goth, 1919,
and recorded in Book 1913 A at page
%.
Second Tract.
Beginning on Crooked Greek, s
chains above the original corner of
Lot Z in the division of the John
Smith estate lands, according to
plat and survey of same as record
ed in Book of Plats No. at page -
in the office of Che Register of Deeds
for Richmond County, said original
corner being designated as the Mat.
thew Cole and Darby Gibson corner;
and runs thence parallel with orig.
inal line of tract or Lot Z, North
70 West rs chains to a corner in
the original line, now corner of
w. d. Smith and David Peele
lands; and runs thence in North
east direction with w. d. Smith line
to another corner of the original
line of Lot No. Z; thence with said
original line North q East 6 chains
to corner; thence as a line of tract
No. s, North As West 1880 chains to
a corner; thence North to a corner
of the M. w. Moore tract, which is
a part of the original tract of the
John Smith estate lands designated
as tract No. 8; thence in a North
east direction with the dividing line
between tracts s and 8 of said divis-
ion with NJ. w. Moore's line to his
corner and now a corner of S. d.
thence with S. D. Doug
las line in same direction as the
original dividing line to his corner
(his corner being extreme Northeast
corner of Lot No. 8, according to plat
and survey; thence as another line
of Lot No. s, South II East to a
corner; thence as another original
line South Y West 20.50 chains to
a corner; thence as another original
line South 4 West % chains to an
other corner; thence as dividing
line between tracts Z and 8, North
IS East to the run of Crooked
Creek; thence down the various
courses of Crooked Greek to the
place of beginning.
This the Goth day of June, 1922.
OZMER L. HENRY,
A. r. McPHAIL,