The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-11

and the holder thereof has requested
sale of said property to satisfy
same,
Now, therefore, shall on
Wednesday, April 10, 1885, at 2
o'clock p. M. of that day at the
front door of the courthouse at
Jefferson, Ashe county, North,
Carolina sell at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash, those 8
! certain tracts or parcels of land lying
and being in Ashe County, N. C. and
described as follows:
Tract L: In Old Fields Township,
on the water of the Old Fields Creek,
and on the East side of Bald Noun
tain, BEGINNING at a pile of rocks
in the r. L. Ballou line to ashes and
a birch, sugar tree and water oak
pointers, and runs North Sc w in and
with the R. L. Ballou line sc 2-5 poles
to stake, small chestnut and sugar
tree pointers, the R. l.. Ballou corner;
thence S 125 poles to stake on the
Southeast side of large water oak
and rock and hickory pointers;
thence w 70 poles to two water oaks
on top of the mountain; thence N At
West with top of the mountain, 10
poles to a stake on top of mountain;
thence N II ga w IA poles to a
water oak on top of mountain; thence
N 1-2 w Is poles to a small water
oak; thence N 8 E % poles to small
water oak on top Of mountain; thence
N 13 E 18 1-2 poles to stake and
rock on main top of mountain; thence
N 70 1-2 E II poles to a stake or
rock on top of mountain; thence N
So E 6 2-5 poles to a beech on top of
mountain; thence N IA E 5 3-5 poles
to three water oaks; thence N 81 E 8
poles to a stake; thence N IS 1-2 E
10 poles to three water oak; thence
N 80 E 10 poles to a water oak;
thence N 8 IA w Is poles to a water
oak; thence N Is E 7 IA poles to
two water oaks; thence N W E IS
poles to a stake; thence N II IL
E 20 poles to marked water oak;
thence S SO E 81 1-2 poles to sugar
tree; thence S SO E 80 1-2 poles to
stake in J. G. Hardin's line; thence
S 2 w 2 2-5 poles to a maple; said
Hardin's corner; thence N SO w 20
poles to a stake; thence S 10 E 46
| poles to a sugar tree; Hardin's corn
err; thence N 81 w 20 poles to an old
birch stump Hardin's corner; thence S
2 w 10 poles to fallen hickory; Har-
din's corner; thence S So 1-2 w
poles to the beginning, containing
80 1-2 acres and being the same tract
of land granted to the said parties
of the first part by the State of North
Carolina by Grant No. 1879, under
Entry No. 954, said Grant No. 1879
being recorded in Office of the Sec
rotary of State in Book 1877 pg. 116,
and recorded in the Registers Office
for Ashe County in Book gu" / pig.
352, to all Of which reference is here
made.
Tract No. 2: Lying and being in
Old Fields Township, Ashe County,
N. c. and adjoining Tract No. 1,
Hardin Brothers, and others, and be-
ing more particularly described as
follows: BEGINNING at a locust,
Hardin's corner, on the South side of
Big Ball, running N so E 80 poles
to a small sugar tree; thence N Sc
West up a rocky ridge 80 poles to
a stake on the top of a mountain;
thence S 125 poles to a stake; thence
E IS poles to stake in Hardin's line
near the Big Cove; thence to the be-
| ginning, containing "a acres, more or
less, said lands being the same grant
ed by the State of North Carolina to
Jesse Ray, the Grant for which is
registered in the Registers Office of
Jefferson County. N. C. in Book Ell
at pg. 1856, and the same land con-
, veyed by Charles Hardin to A. D.
Hardin, same being recorded in said
Registers Office in D. B. I'll.
Tract No. 3: BEGINNING on an
ashe in Hardin's line and Henry
Houck's corner, running w SO poles
to a stake, Henry Houck's corner,
thence S 8 E 81 poles to S. G.. Triv-
ett's and the Neal corner, thence with
NeaPs line n So IL w 100 poles to
a spanish oak in Haw Gap, Meals and
Church's corner; thence with Gallo
ways line N rs E 80 poles to two
water oaks on top of ridge, Mrs. Har-
|dln's corner; thence with her line E
70 poles to a water oak on rock;
thence S SO IL E AZ poles to stake
in Hardin's line; thence with Hardin's
line S 10 poles to the beginning, and
being the same property conveyed to
the said j. D. Baumgardner by E. c..
KegIey and wife by deed dated April
1, 1921.
Sale will be made subject to taxes
for 1884 and 1885 and any delinquent
taxes against said property.
Given under my hand this March 9,
1886.
HERBERT G. PETERS, Jr.
Sd Trustee.
Approximately 12,539,O00 barrels