-----Original Message----- From: Jerry & Charlotte McKnight <CJMcKnight@wabash.net> To: Rowan Roots-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:47 PM Subject: need help finding a John >Can anyone who is familiar with the territory mentioned in the following >land descriptions tell me where this area would be on todays map of North >Carolina? > >Surely this territory became part of Old Rowan . Where was Mt Pleasant, the >Indian Wells, the High Bluff and the Saw Mill? > >I would appreciate any information about the location, the man John >MacKnight, his origin, his residence, his family, his neighbors at this >location and whether he settled here or not. > >PATENT BOOK TWO > >1081 pg. 247 JOHN MACKNIGHT 5 March 1729 320 acres on Cape- Fear River >in Bath county betweenMount Pleasant and the Indian Wells, joining the S. W. >side of the N. W. branch of the sd. river and other lands of sd. MCKNIGHT. > >1082 pg. 247 JOHN MACKNIGHT 5 March 1729 640 acres in Bath County on the >S.W. side of the North West branch of the Cape Fear river at a place >commonly called Mount Pleasant , joining the river. > >1083 pg. 248 JOHN MACKNIGHT 5 March 1729 320 acres in Bath County on the >S. W. side of the N. W. branch of Cape Fear river at a place called Indian >Wells being a high bluff about seven miles above the Saw Mill, joining the >river. > >Witnesses: ( to all 3 entries ) R. EVERARD, C.GALE, J. LOVICK, E. MOSELEY, >J. WORLEY, E. GALE, R. WEST, R. SANDERSON thanks in advance J. McK. > > > >