No. 291. KNOW YE, That We, for and in Consideration of the
Sum of Fifty Shillings for every Hundred Acres hereby granted, paid into our
Treasury by Charles McDowel have Given and Granted, and by these Presents do
Give and Grant unto the said Charles McDowel a Tract of Land containing One
Thousand Acres, lying and being in our County of Burke On the North Side of
the Catawba River Including the place known by the name of the Quaker Meadows
and the Improvement whereon he lives Beginning at a white Oak on the Bank of the
River two poles South of Abraham Collett's corner running thence North passing
xxxxxxxx [x'ed out] Collett's corner running thence North [passing Collett's
corner is x'ed out] with his line nine chains to a black Oak Moses Langlees
corner then West with Langlees line fourteen chains and a half to Wills Branch
running up the Branch forty three chains and a half to an Ash tree in William
Millar's lower line on the North bank of the Branch thence South with Millar's
line Ten chain to a pine Millar's corner Thence West with Millar's line forty
nine chain to a Poplar in said Millar's line on the North side of a small Branch
thence South nine degrees West with Nicholson's and James McDowels lines Seventy
five Chain and a half to a Pine in James Greenlee's Line thence East with Greenlee's
line passing his corner same course with Charles McDowel's line of his upper
survey one hundred and fifty one chains to a Gum on the River Bank high above
the Rocky ford thence down the River the Various Courses thereof to the Beginning…
To hold to the said Charles McDowel his Heirs and Assigns, for ever… registered
within Twelve Months from the Date hereof, otherwise the same shall be void and
of no Effect.
… the Fourteenth day of March in the fourth Year of our Independence and in the
Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty by His Excelly's Comd.
J. Glasgow, Sec.
R.C. Caswell