Craven County
Deed Book 11, p. 359
1 August 1763
£16, 100 acres
“in Craven County, formerly in Beaufort County on the South side of Bay River, and at the head of a Creek called Thomas Creek, beginning at a pine on a point by the Creek side… to Humes’ line, … it being a tract of land patented by the said Mark Hesford, bearing date the 23rd day of October, A.D., 1761…”
Signed:
Mark Hesford
Witnesses:
James Willcocks, Sr.
James Willcocks, Jr.
William Willcocks