The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-13
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DARE COUNTY
IN The SUPERIOR COURT
NOTICE
Walter HI. Beacham, Petitioner

VS..
William T. Ward and wife, Mary
Elizabeth Ward; State of North
Carolina, Dare County, State De-
partment of Conservation & De-
velopment; State Board of Educa-
ton; State Highway & Public
Works Commission; Carolina Vir-
ginia Coastal Corporations; United
States of America, Defendants
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
The parties above named and all
other persons interested will take
lorlce that on the 9TH day of Au-
gust 1854, the above named petit
TONER filed a petition in the office
of the Clerk of Superior Court OF
Dare County, to have the title tC
certain lands therein described
registered and confirmed pursuant
to Chapter 80 of the Public Laws
of 1913, (Chapter 43 of the Gener-
al Statutes of North Carolina
and that summons has been issued
returnable at the Office of the
Clerk of Superior Court of Dare
County on the 18th day, of October
1854. Said land is situate in At
lantic Township, Dare County,
North Carolipa, near the village of
Duck, described as follows:
Beginning at point on Curri-
tuck Sound, which said begin
ming point is the Northwest cor
ner of the tract, formerly known
as the Scarborough tract of
land at Duck, now owned by w.
T. Ward and wife, Elizabeth
Ward under deed dated March
%, 1949 from J. d. Scarborough
ct ais, recorded in Book "a Page
519, Office of Register of Deeds,
Dare County, North Carolina,
said beginning point being also
located North 20 deg. East a
distance of 2027.6 feet from a
logwOOd post at the Southwest
corner of the Scarborough tract;
and running thence from said be-
ginning point in a SOutheastrly
direction and along the North
line of the aforesaid w. T. Ward
tract of land, passing through a
concrete monument situated 200
feet from said Currituck Sound,
a distance of 1855 feet to the
highwater mark of the Atlantic
Ocean; and running thence
North IL deg. West and along
the highwater mark of the At
lantic Ocean a distance of 243
feet; to stake or other marker;
same being at the Southeast
corner of the land formerly be-
longing to C. r. Evans, T. S.
Meekins, ct ais, now belonging
to the United States of America;
and thence running North IS
deg. West and passing through
a concrete monument situated
200 feet eastwardly from Curri-
tuck Sound, a distance of 1929
feet to a stake or other marker
situated on the shore of Curri-
tuck Sound ;said stake is located
the following courses and dis
tances from a railroad iron at
the Southwest corner of the
Charles S. Cain tract; South IL
deg. East 500 feet; South 6 deg.
80 min East 941 feet; South Is
deg. East GIL feet; South II
deg. 80 min. East 1922 feet;
South deg. As min. East 400
feet; south 8 deg. "A min. East
1891 feet; and running thence
South 8 deg. West along the
Currituck Sound a distance of
237 feet to the place Of begin
ming.
Excepting from this descrip-
ton the land lying within the
right of wav of Carolina Virgin
la Coastal Corporation.
Peing the same land decided to
Walter H. Beacham by Bonnie
Beacham Perry and husband,
Joseph ID. Perry; Ethel Beach
am Gard, widow; Clvde A.
Beacham and wife, Nellie L.
Beacham nv deed dated Febru-
airy 10. 1854 and filed for record
in Office of Register of Deeds,
Dare County, North Carolina.
This 9Th dav of August 1854.
c. s. MEEKINS. Clerk SUPER
Tor Court. Dare County. North