The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DARE COUNTY
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
Roland d. Owens, Petitioner
VS..
Theodore S. Meekins and wife,
Rosa p. Meekins. Delma M. Jones
and husband, if any, unknown
heirs of Daley O'Neal, w. H. Nc
Gown, Trustee; Dare County, State
of North Carolina; State Highway
and Public Works Commission of
the State of North Carolina; I'M
known heirs of ID. M. Pugh; un-
known heirs of Edmond B. Mid
gett.
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
The parties above named and all
other persons interested will take
notice that on the 21st day of
January 1854, the above named Pc
titiener filed a petition in the office
of the Clerk of Superior Court of
Dare County, to have the title to
certain lands therein described re-
gistered and confirmed pursuant
to Chapter 80 of the Public Laws
of 1913, (Chapter 43 of the Cen
eral 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 26th day of March
1854. Said land is situate in Kin
nekeet Township, in Dare County
North Carolina, adjoining the lands
of Theodore S. Meekins, the North
Carolina State Highway leading
through Rodanthe and Waves,
North Carolina, the Pamlico Sound,
and the Atlantic Ocean, and bound
ed and described as follows:
Beginning at a stake located
on the highwater mark of the
Atlantic Ocean, which said be-
ginning point is situated North
IS deg. 08 min. East, 480 feet
from the Coast and Geodetic
marker entitled, U. S. DIM.
800; and running thence from
said beginning point North 8
deg. 25 min. East and along the
highwater mark of the Atlantic
Ocean a distance of $50 feet to
a concrete post; thence North SO
deg. Is min. West 22S feet to a
concrete post, which said post is
situated North So deg. 80 min.
East a distance of 918 feet from
the aforesaid U. S. Government
marker; thence continuing North
SO deg. Is min. West distance
of 1888 feet, more or less, to a
concrete post situated in the
Eastern margin of the right of
way of the North Carolina State
Highway leading from ROdanthe
to Waves, North Carolina;
thence continuing the same
course 100 feet across the afOre-
said highway to a concrete post
situated in the Western margin
of the aforesaid right of way;
thence continuing North S3 deg.
Is min. West $40 feet, more or
less to a post or other marker
situated on the PamlicO Sound;
thence South 10 deg. West along
the highwater mark of Pamlico
Sound distance of 800 feet to
a post or other marker; thence
South IL deg. 80 min. East along
the highwater mark of the Pam
leo Sound 200 feet to a stake
or other marker; thence South 1
deg. 80 min. East along the Pam
leo Sound 10 feet to a concrete
pest; and thence continuing
along the highwater mark of the
said Sound South l deg. 80 min.
West 200 feet to stake or other
marker; thence South SO deg. Is
min. East distance of 545 feet,
more or less, to a stake or other
marker situated in the Western
margin of the aforesaid right of
way; thence in nOrtherly direc-
ton along the Western margin
of said right of way a distance
of 200 feet to a concrete post;
thence South SO deg. Is min.
East crossing the aforesaid
highway to a concrete post stu
ated in the Eastern margin of
the aforesaid highway right of
way; thence South SO deg. Is
min. East distance of 1874 feet,
more or less, to concrete post;
thence continuing the same
course 26O feet to stake on the
highwater mark of the Atlantic
Ocean, the point or place of be-
ginning. Excepting from this
description the land lying within
the right of way of the North
Carolina State Highway.
Being the exact same land con-
veyed to r. D. Owens by T. S.
Meekins and wife, Rosa P. Meekins
by deed dated June 1, 1853, record
ed in Book Al Page 181, Office of
Register of Deeds Dare County,
/ North Carolina.
Being a portion of the lands for
merly known as the Edmond B.
Midget tract of land; and being
also a portion of the lands known
as the Daley O'Neal tract of land.
This 21st day of January 1854.
c. S. MEEKINS, Clerk Superior