Item #56412 Docketed on verso (two unrelated manuscript notes also on verso, one commenting on Perkins's Revolutionary War service). Property survey for Elisha Perkins of Burke County, North Carolina, as recorded in a manuscript document, completed and signed 15 October 1778, and incorporating a small survey map of the land, 8 3/4 x 6 inches; the map, in the upper right corner, measures 3 x 3 inches. Folded as for filing, but very good. Accompanied by another document: Surveying the dower of Jane Hiland, the widow of Elisha Perkin, in a manuscript document, completed and signed by James Murphy and three others, 13 February 1816. Charles BECKMAN.

Docketed on verso (two unrelated manuscript notes also on verso, one commenting on Perkins's Revolutionary War service). Property survey for Elisha Perkins of Burke County, North Carolina, as recorded in a manuscript document, completed and signed 15 October 1778, and incorporating a small survey map of the land, 8 3/4 x 6 inches; the map, in the upper right corner, measures 3 x 3 inches. Folded as for filing, but very good. Accompanied by another document: Surveying the dower of Jane Hiland, the widow of Elisha Perkin, in a manuscript document, completed and signed by James Murphy and three others, 13 February 1816.

Folio, 13 x 8 inches, with a survey map of the property at the head of the document, 5 x 8 inches. Folded as for filing; docketed on verso. Very good. Item #56412

Perkins owned 450 acres along "John River." This is the first 18th-century North Carolina land survey that we have offered. Perkins's widow, remarried after his death, would hold the land, 237 acres of a larger property surveyed first in 1778, until her decease.

Price: $500.00

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