Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-07-06
SALE OF LAND.

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Under and by virtue of the power
and authority conferred by a Judg-
ment of the Superior Court of Rich.
mond County, North Carolina, on the
10Th day of June, 1922, in certain
action therein pending entitled
Claude Gore VS.. Esther Douglas
and others, heirs at law of Scipio
Douglas, deceased the undersigll,
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 all iron
stake in the old Quick road; thence
down the various courses OF said
road as follows: North 21-I5 East
546.7 feet; North IT'S East sos feet;
North IL 1-2 East 324.3 feet; North
II 1-2 East 429 feet; North Ills East
$685. feet; North IA East 2675 feet;
North East 1858 to an iron stake;
thence North 80 East 1884 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 71-45 East 1272.5 to a
stake, pine pointer; thence South
32-15 West 6S7.6 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
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Second Tract.
Beginning on Crooked Creek, s
chains above the original corner of
Lot in the division of the John
Smith estate lands, according to
plat and survey of same as record
ed in Book of Plats No. 1 at page =
in the office of the 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 25 chains to a corner in
the original line, now a 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 Is West 1850 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 8 and 8 of said diyis-
ion with M. w. Moore's line to his
corner and now a corner of S. d.
Douglas; 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. s, according to plat
and survey; thence as another line
of Lot No. 8, South II East to a
corner; thence as another original
line South u West 1850 chains to
a corner; thence as another original
line South 4 West 22 chains to an
other corner; thence as dividing
line between tracts 7 and 8, North
IS East to the run of Crooked
Greek; thence down the various
courses of Crooked Creek to the
place of beginning.
This the goth day of June, 1922.
]. OZMER L. HENRY,
A. r. McPHAIL,
Commissioners.