Craven County
Deed Book 36, p. 573
9 March 1805
$11, 100 acres
“… a certain piece or parcel of land [in Craven County] on the sound at the north side of the mouth of Neuse River beginning at a live oak Francis Bonds Corner and running along his Patent line north sixteen degrees west ninety poles to his corner and William Brooks’s corner then along Brooks’s line south eighty eight degrees east to the second side then along the sound sixty poles and from thence to the beginning containing fifty acres be the same more or less…”
Signed:
Wm Brooks { Seal }
Witnesses:
Joshua Carraway
John Carruthers, Sen.