From the papers of Merry T. Pittman
Transcription:
The above plat represents one hundred and sixty four acres of land on Both sides of the road leading from Avents Ferry in Chatham County to the longstreet in Moore County and bounded as follows (To wit)-
Beginning at a dead pine in a small pond at the intersection of Rossers and Ishmael Robirds lines and runs thence west along Ishmael’s line twenty chains to a Black Jack thence south thirteen chains and sixty links to a Black Jack stump near Ishmael Robird’s stable thence with another of Ishmael’s lines west forty chains to a pine thence with another of said Ishmael’s lines north thirty two chains and ten links to a dead pine in William Rush’s line thence East sixty chains with said Rush’s line to a red oak stump his corner thence South two degrees East eighteen chains and fifty links to the beginning it being bounded all round by other and older lines except the line of forty chains and of thirty two chains and ten links agreeable to the date of the grant […] surveyed this 19th July 1821-
By William Campbell
