---------- > From: MS LOUISE T OVERTON <DFGM43A@prodigy.com> > To: NC-SC-ROOTS-L@listserv.indiana.edu; NCORANGE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: John CHEEK born abt 1768 Orange Co. NC > Date: Tuesday, December 02, 1997 11:53 AM A Robert Cheek received a NC land grant of 300 acres on New Hope Creek . Entry No. 619 dated 15 Dec 1778, surveyed 20 Dec 1779 and issued 13 Mar 1780. Grant 397, Patent Book 42, page 34. "Beginning at a post oak running thence North twenty five chains to a maeaple [maple] then West sixty chains to a black oak then South sixty five chains to a post oak then East eleven chains to a black oak then North ten chains to a black oak then East thirty-five chains to a black jack then North ten chains to a black oak then East thirty-five chains to a black jack then North thirty chains to a black jack then East fourteren chains to thefirst station. Surveyed 20 Dec 1779 by Thomas Mulhollan, DS George Long and Jno. Mitchael, SCC . 300 acres on the waters of Hew Hope bounded on the West by the lands of Thomas Estridge and George Reaves, on the south by land of George Long, on the East by land of Andrew Mitchel and on the north by a conditional line of Jacob Mason including his improvements. . ." I just happened to be working on land grants in this area and had extracted this grant. Harold Austin Steiner (Hal) hsteiner@anv.net ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange