Certified
Copy of Joel
Lane deed for
1000 acres of
land to Gov.
Alexander
Hart to & his
successors
in office.
This indenture nade the fifth day of April, in the year ofle
thousand seven hundred and ninety two, "between Joel Lane Esq4
uire, of Wake County of the one part and Alexander Martin
Esquire^ G-ovenor of the State of North Carolina, of the other
part, Witiiesseth that the said Joel Lane, for the sin of one
thousand three hundred and seventy eight pounds, current -ioney
of llorth Carolina, to hin paid by Frederick Hargate Esquire
Chairnan of the Board of Corriissioners appointed, "by Act of
Assembly passed in deer, in the year one thousand seven hundrled
& ninety one, to determine on the place for holding the future
meetings of the General Asserably, and for the Residence of thje
Chief Officers of the State of North Carolina,'- the Receipt
rrhereof is hereby acknowledged,—Hath granted bargained & sola
aliened enfeoffed,released and confirmed, and by these presents;
Doth grant bargain t sell, alien enfeoff release & confirm to
the said Alexander Martin Esquire, and his Successors in Offibe
for the tiie being, a certain Tract or parcel of Land in Wake'
County to the Eastward of and near to Wake Court house con­taining
one thousand acres, more or less and bound as follows^
Beginning at four Sasafras, two White Oaks, t* ;o per sin; ions, and
an Elm on Rocky Branch, thence North ten degrees East three
hundred & thirty four poles to a stake in the Run of a Spring
|!Brarich,-then East three hundred and twenty seven poles to a
snail Hickory & Red Oak, near a craggy Rock,-then North forty
poles to a Stake near a Red Oak,-then East one hundred and fiftr
Eight poles to a Stake in the Center of a Red-Oak a Hickory &
two post Oaks,-then South two hundred & eighty one poles to a
White Oak in Joshua Suggs Line,-then South fifty seven degrees
?fest two hundred & fifty six poles to a young Hickory,-then
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•forth eighty four degrees West one hundred and. thirty poles tcj
i post Oak,*then West one hundred & forty eight poles to a
White-Oak on the Rocky Branch,-then up the Branch the various
pourses thereof to the Beginning; and all Woods, Timber Trees.
Jays .Waters,Springs ,I}iolu~ieiits & advantages to said Tract of