Craven County
Deed Book 33, p. 313
10 January 1799
£50 / 30 acres
“…a certain tract or tenement of land [in Craven County] it being [30 acres] beginning at a white oak in the swamp in the line that parts Benjamin Whitakers and Sd Carruthers land and runs along said line No 96 Wt 65 pole to a holly a corner of said Carruthers patent, then along the line of the pattent No 80 pole to a gum then running a direct course to the back line to conclude thirty acres…”
Signed
Aron [ his X mark ] Morris { Seal }
Witnesses
Joseph Brooks
John [ his W mark ] Slabuer