Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-07-20
SALE OF LAND.


Under and by virtue of the power
and authority conferred by Judg-
ment OF the Superior Court of Rich.
mond County, North Carolina, on the
10th day of June, 1922, in a certain
action therein pending entitled
Claude Gore VS.. Esther Douglas
and others, heirs at law of Scipio
Douglas, deceased" the undersign-
ed Commissioners will sell at public
auction in front of the Court House
door in the town of Rockingham,
North Carolina, at IL o'clock noon
on Monday, the gath day of july
1922, 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
,,i6.7 feet; North IT'S East 30S feet;
North II 1-2 East 324.3 feet; North
II 1-2 East 429 feet; North Ills East
$685. feet; North IA East 1913 feet;
North s East 1853 to an iron stake;
thence North 50 East 1854 feet to
an iron stake; thence South 64-35
East 1904 feet to an iron stake;
thence North 20 East 669.S feet;
thence South 71-f5 East 1878 to a
stake, pine pointer; thence South
1915 West GS7.G 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 1873 A at page
q.
Second Tract.
Beginning ON Crooked Greek,
chains above the original corner @
Lot 7 in the division of the JOIN
Smith estate lands, according tt
plat and survey of same as record
ed in Book of Plats No. | at page =
in the office of the Register of Deed
for Richmond County, said origlna
corner being designated as the Mat
thew Cole and Darby Gibson corner
! and runs thence parallel with orig
inal lire of tract or Lot Z, Nortl
| - West % chains to a corner il
the original line, now corner 0
| w. d. Smith and David Peel
lands; and runs thence in a North
east direction with w. ID. Smith lin
to another corner of the origina
line of Lot No. Z; thence with salt
original line North p East 6 chain
to a corner; thence as a line of trac
| No. s, North 10 West 1850 chains Il
corner; thence North to corne
of the NJ. w. Moore tract, which i
a part of the original tract OF tn
John Smith estate lands designate
as tract No: 9; thence in NORTH
east direction with the dividing lin
between tracts s and of said divis
ion with M. w. Moores line to hi
corner and now corner OF 5. L
Douglas; thence with S. D. Doug
las line in same direction as tn
original dividing line to his corne
This corner being extreme Northeas
corner of Lot No. s, according to pla
and survey; thence as another lin
of Lot No. s, South II East to
corner; thence as another origins
line South 72 West 1850 chains
a corner; thence as another origin;
line South West q chains to al
other corner; thence as dividin
line between tracts 7 and s, Mort
IS East to the run of Crooke
Creek; thence down the variou
courses of Crooked Creek to tt
place of beginning.
This the Goth day of June, 1872
OZMER L. HENRY, s