1800 Carver St New Bern Nc

[Terina]

Mostdeeds and legal papers below come from county register of deeds sites or estates records. There are deeds, petitions, warrants for survey, and actual surveys. The date of each deed in the county's index is the date it was proved in court and ordered to registered in the court record. In some cases the court register date was years after the date the deed was written and signed by the parties concerned. However, in the list below, the date at the beginning of each deed is the date it was written and signed, proving the parties are alive. The date it was sworn to in court (the probate date) is the date of the deed in the official indices at the Register's Office. The probate date is found at the bottom of most every deed showing the term of the court and the year.

An explanation of how land claims and entries became land grants in North Carolina, from The Dixie Frontier, by Everett Dick, 1948, p. 10:

"The North Carolina law, applicable to Tennessee in 1782, had the advantage over that of Kentucky, however, in that an official surveyor marked off the land. The system was: (1) A claimant would go into the woods and mark out roughly the boundaries of the desired tract. (2) This crude survey when submitted to the entry-taker at the land office was called an "entry." He made a record of the entry and issued a warrant for the survey. (3) The official surveyor connected with the land office then made a survey and submitted a plat to the secretary of state, who issued a land grant. (4) The title was complete when the grant was recorded in the office of the register of the county where the land lay."

It should be said here that entries, warrants to survey, or surveys could be sold to other persons before becoming a formal grant. Also be aware that the entire process, from the settler's marking out his desired tract to the issuance of the grant to the settler could take anywhere between days to several years.

The red links below indicate what I call a 'Source Deed'. On this page only, a source deed states genealogical information via real estate conveyance, such as property given or sold from parent to child, etc. Some of these source deeds may also be deeds that have been researched from an ancestor down to subsequent descendants.

George the Second etc Know Ye etc. that We have given etc. unto John McFerson three hundred and Twenty acres of Land lying in Bladen County on the So. W. side of the N.W. branch of Cape Fear River Begining at a black oak on the river Bank about a mile and a half below the great falls [also known as Long Falls] thence So 70 W 56 3/4 ch to a Pine then No 40 W 56 3/4 ch to a pine then No 70 E 56 3/4 ch to a Spanish Oak then to the first Station To have etc Yield etc four Shillings Proc. Money Entring these ___ in the Andr in Six Months Dated ye 4 June 1740

Gabr Johnston

[The fate of this piece of land is unknown. John McPherson may have sold it and the deed was burned in the Bladen courthouse fires. It is not part of his 1825 estate settlement in Robeson County and there is no record of it being sold in Cumberland County, NC.]

[This is the Malcolm McNeill of the Argyll Colony who up to now has been a mystery and whose fate in the province beyond this Argyll Colony grant is unknown. It can be argued, at least, that due to this gubernatorial gift of 300 acres he was a "head of family", thus likely a tacksman in Argyll who not only paid passage to North Carolina for some or all of his tenants, but who had acted as middleman between himself and their common clan chief. In my research, mainly through extant deeds for him, I believe Malcolm is dead by 1760 as it appears much of his property had been sold off by that date; indeed, Malcolm sold this 300 acres in 1748 to John Anderson and through subsequent owners (see "related deeds" links above for the chain of ownership) ended up in the hands of Rev. James Campbell. Eventually it was bought and paid for by Archibald Bahn McNeill for his sons Laughlin and Neill, and, after Laughlin died in 1795, the land was formally bequeathed by Archibald in his will of 1801 to the surviving brother Neill. One purchase, likely his last, was a grant of `100 acres in 1756 and in 1816 it found its way into a McNeill family; which McNeill family I cannot yet tell. Everett McNeill Kivette, a little-known, doggedly brilliant researcher of the McNeill clan of the Argyll Colony here and in the UK, had convincing and evidentiary theories on Malcolm's family and collateral connections via his own decades-long research in Scotland and England. I will add more concerning those complex yet convincing theories at a later date.]

George the Second Etc Know ye that we have given and granted to Malcolm McNeal three hundred acres of land lying in the Bladen County on the SW side of the NWt. Branch of the Cape Fear River and Joins the lower side of Mr James Campbells land beginning at a Burch S30 W76 3/4 chain to a pine, the S60 E55 chain to a pine then No30 E32 3/4 chain to a white oak, then to the to the Beginning. To hold Etc. Dated ye 4th June1740 ... Gab. Johnston

[This is "Carver Hector" McNeill. When Hector finally sold this land it lay in Chatham County, and he sold it in 1778 to Valentine Braswell, Jr. of Chatham County.]

George the Second Etc To all Etc Know ye that we have given and granted unto Hector McNeal a tract of Land containing Six Hundred & forty acres lying and being in the County of Bladen On the East side of the N. Et. branch of the No. Wt. river begining at a Gum at the Mouth of duck Creek in the Upper corner of McLauglan's Land at the forks of said river and runs Et. 72 chains to a Pine then No. 30 Chain to a Pine then Wt. 80 Chains to a Stake nigh a marked white Oak then along the said branch to the first Station. To hold & Yielding and paying & four Shillings Proclamation money yearly for every Hundred Acres Sealing the same with one White Person Clearing and Cultivating three Acres for every hundred within three years and entering these Letters with the Auditor within Six months In Testimony & Witnefs & Dated at Wilmington 21st May 1741 ... Gab. Johnston

[This is highly likely "Archibald Bahn" McNeill as it appears to figure into his will of 1801 in a bequest to his son "One-eye Hector" McNeill.]

North Carolina To His Excellency Gabl. Johnston Esq Govr

You are forthwith to Admeasure & layout or cause to be admeasured & laid out unto Archibald McNeal a plantation Containing One hundred acres of Land lying in Bladen County On the So Wst side of the NoWst Branch of Cape Fear River Beginning at ye Upper line of a Tract of Land Surveyed to Thomas Walker & runing up to the Lower line of a survey of Land for Thomas Jones & back for ye complement to which Land shall be seated with Rights proved & Entered with the Auditor before the Delivery hereof, Observeing his Majesty's Instructions for runing out of Lands & a plat & Certificate return unto the Secretary's office within Eight months And doing this shall be ye Warrt which Warrt may not be afsigned.

To Him the sd Jno Martileer his heirs & afsigns forever, of our mannor of East Greenwich our County of Kent, in fee & Common Souage, by fealty only yielding & paying to Us our Heirs & Succefsors for Ever the Yearly Rent of four shillings Proclamation money for Every Hundred Acres of land hereby Granted to be paid to us our Heirs & Succefsors on the Second day of February in Each year at such places in our sd Province as Our Governor for the time being with the advice & consent of our Council Shall think fitt to Direct & appoint Provide always that in case the sd John Martileer his heirs or afsigns shall not within the space of three years alter the date hereof Clear & Cultivate according to the Proportion of three acres for Every hundred & also that a minute or Docket of these our Letters Patent shall not be Entered in the office of Our Auditor General for the time being in our sd Province within Six months after the Date hereof that then & in Either of the sd Causes these & Letters Patent Shall be void & of none Effect In testimony Whereof We have caused the Grate Seal of Our sd province to be hereunto affixed Witnefs our Trusty & Well Beloved Gabriel Johnston Esqr Our Captain General & Governor in Chief at Newtown [became Wilmington, NC] this ninth day of September in the Eleventh year of our Reign Anno Domini 1737 - Gabriel Johnston

Endorsed on the Back of the above Patent as follows viz -

Know all Men by these Prefentf that I the within Designated John Martileer for & in consideration of the sum of thirty six pounds Currency of North Carolina to me in hand paid by Daniel McNeill Esqr of Bladen County & Province of North Carolina planter the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowleg & doth acquit & forever Discharge the sd Daniel McNeill & his heirs do afsign Tranffer & make over all my right title Interest that I might could or can here have to the within designed tract of land by virtue of the within pattent or any other way unto him the sd Daniel McNeill his heirs & afsigns for ever & the sd John Martileer shall & will warrant & Defend the within Defined Tract of land Containing Six Hundred acres of Land more or lefs [This tract became known as 'Tweedside', or 'Tweeside', its location at the time of this deed was in that part of old Bladen County that in 1754 became Cumberland County. The site of Tweedside is still today in Cumberland.] with all appurtenances thereunto the same belonging or in any ways appertaining unto me the sd Daniel McNeill & his heirs for ever against me & my heirs or any other person or persons claiming by from or under me aforesaid & shall at any time hereafter at the reafonable request of the sd Daniel of or foresd & make Execute & acknowledge or cause to be made Executed & acknowledged any other Deed of Conveyance as by the Council of the sd Daniel McNeill aforesaid shall be advised devised or Required

Witnefs my hand this 28th day of June A.D. 1743

Signed Sealed & Delivered In prefence of Us - John Martileer Seal Frances Martileer Seal

Hector McAlaster

Neill McNeill

John McNeill

Proved in open Court September 1748 by the oath of Neill McNeill - Thomas Jones Clk

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