Anders Family
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grandson Jim and wife
Tina Smith Anders Family

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Rufus and Florence Hall Owen Family in 1947
Rufus and Florence Hall Owen and children

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North Carolina Grant 3527 to Benjamin Wilson - 1836
Transcribed by Linda O. Anders
 
 

 

Buncombe County Register of Deeds, Book 20, Pages 485, 486
Copied from microfilm in the Buncombe Co. Courthouse, 04 April 2003
Transcribed by Linda O. Anders, 19 May 2003, originally posted 04 January 2004  
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State of North Carolina No. 3527 

Know ye that we for and in consideration of sum of five dollars for every hundred acres hereby granted paid into our Treasury by Benjamin Wilson hath given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto the said Benjamin Wilson a tract of land containing one hundred acres lying and being in the County of Buncombe on both sides of Clear Creek & water of Little River including part of a Shoal near the road that leads from the Island ford to Blythes Gap. Beginning on a Pine on the West side of said Shoal on a ridge then South fifty five degrees East thirty poles to a Stake, thence South thirty five degrees West ninety poles to a Pine and Rock, thence North fifty five West one hundred & eighty poles to a Whiteoak, thence North thirty five East ninety poles to a Spruce Pine in a Branch, thence South fifty five East to the Begining. Entered 29th April 1836 as by the plat hereunto annexed doth appear together with all woods waters mines minerals hereditaments and appurtenances to the said belonging or appertaining. To hold to the said Benjamin Wilson his heirs and assigns forever yielding and paying to us such sums of money yearly or otherwise as our General Assembly from time to time may direct. Provided always that the said Grantee shall cause this Grant to be registered in the Registers Office of our said County of Buncombe within twelve months from the date hereof otherwise the same shall be void. The testimony whereof we have caused these our letters to be made Patent and our Great Seal to be hereunto affixed Witness Richd. D. Spaight Esquire our Governor Captain General & Commander in Chief at Raleigh the 24th day of December in the 61st year of our Independence and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six. 

By command                                       Richd. D. Spaight 
    W?  Hill Secretary 
Registered June 24th  1837