Craven County
Deed Book 19, p. 119
20 July 1771
£175/ 200 acres
“…200 acres of land and plantation [in Craven County] … on North side of Trent River and South Side of little Chincapin Creek beginning at a water oak at the mouth of a small drain on the river there along a line of marked trees to the Road that leads from little Chincapin to Harrisons Bridge to a pine marked for a corner tree at the lower end of the Rice [or Race] pattes then along said Road to against Joseph Gilbert’s Plantation then with a straight [line] to little Chincapin Creek to a pine then down the various courses of said creek..”
Signed
William [ his mark*] Morris { Seal }
* Transcription of mark looks more like a fancy H or possibly half of W rather than M – see attached file.
Witnesses
John Gilbert
John Lavender