WILLIAM GIBSON LAND GRANT 1782

Robeson Co., NC

Deed Book A, page 260

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA NO. 655

To all to whom these presents shall come greeting Know ye that we for and in consideration of the sum of Fifty Shillings for every hundred acres hereby granted paid in to our treasury by William Gibson have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto the said William Gibson a tract of land containing one hundred and fifty acres lying and being in our County of Bladen on the Big swamp Beginning at a stake on the Province line and running North forty two chains to a pine thence East thirty five chains seventy one links a lightwood stake thence seventy one links to the Beginning granted at Fairfield the twenty third day of October in the seventh year of our Independence and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty two.

By his Excellys comd J. Glasgow Sec ~ Alex Martin