Dale,
On my Algonkian web site in Pat Garrow's "Mattamuskeet Documents"
Appendix, see:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmack/algonqin/matta8.htm
I have transcribed the deeds so the one for John Carriwon reads:
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APPENDIX 18
Deed Abstract; 19 June, 1749: Hyde County Deeds, Vol. A, Part 1, pp.
333-335.
This Indenture made this Nineteenth day of June in the year of Our Lord
God
One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty Nine and in the twenty first Year
of
the Reign of Our Majesty George the Second .... By us Charles Squires
Proprietor of Arromuskeet in the County of Hyde in Province of North
Carolina
Afos of the one part and John Carriwon of the County and Province
aforesaid
...for and in Consideration of One hundred pounds Current Money of North
Carolina... a piece of Land Situate Lying and being in the Province and
County Aforesiad Begining at a Mulberry on the South Side of Arromuskeet
Lake Joining Upon Mosses Prescott's Land. Runing west along the said
Lake to
Marked poplar tree from thence runing Out South half a Mile to a mark
Maple
tree from thence runing East to Gum tree Marked Operset to the first
Station
then Runing North to the first Station Marked Mulberry tree being One
hundred
and fifty Acres be it more or less of Land... together with all houses
Orchards & Gardens fences Wood & waters high Ground Survaners and
Marshes....
Signed Sealed and
Delivered in presents of Us Char. (his mark) Squires
John Lockhart
Waitman (his mark) Emary
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Hope this helps,
John
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Carawan Christain School wrote:
I have not been able to locate the 1749 deed where John Carawan alias
ect. purchased
land in Hyde County on the Hyde County web page . how can i see a copy .
Dale Carawan