--- On Tue, 2/10/09, James Blair <[email protected]> wrote: > Carstarphen's will also mentions "land I purchased > of William Pace". > "...lend unto to my daughter Elizabeth Horn during her life a tract of land which I purchased of William Pace boundary by Tomkins Spring Branch down the branch to Beaverdam Swamp which swamp is to be the dividing line between Chapele & Elisabeth ..." (Carstarphen's will) "James CARSTARPHEN acquired 59 acres joining his land on 29 April 1783 from John PACE for 35 pounds, 8 shillings." (Halifax County, Deed book 15 page 42.r33, quoted at http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/halifax/deeds/carstar1.txt. Two different Pace-to-Carstarphen transactions? Or did Carstarphen forget who he bought the land from? Full record of the 1783 deed might state boundaries of the land purchased in 1783. James