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i ............ . . ...... ................................................................................................ UNC-CH IIV y GOVT....................TEL 919-962-065A Feb 14 .90 13 16 No .004 P .OA FORMAT14W or Txz Noarm CAROLINA CO[INTISY 247 While the Surveyors'wers rning the N dt S dividing Line Freeman Welker A others measured nine miles due west from Hillsborough do did not reach the dividing Lint by forth four yards On the 31st day of May A D 11140 the commissloners with Silas M Link Surveyor begaa on the center of the north R south Line A.run &measured due wart to the Guilford lint making that line Fifteen miles Ile forty seven chains after gating,the center of that line and adding 610 Acres to the Southern Side for the Territory South of Haw River A Fast of a north a: south Hue dividing tie counties found the cantor to be in Joseph M. Free- lands Fleid N. Z.of Col. John Hardens House the Cainmisaioners with nom dlfieulty procured Severity five Acres of*land wberoon they have laid oft s Court House square with Streets tuning to the same from the four cardinal points of the compass (to wit) N. Ii. E. W. the lands war* bought from three persons with some incumberance on a part and Coat as follows for the wood land $16 pr acre the owners to have the privilege of taking ad the rail d: saw )cgs timber leaving the under growth and clear land at fe Per Acre with the privilege to the owners of moving their fences. . . Commissioners: Jon Stockard James Gant John Scott Absalom Ftartey John S Fogleman Peyton P Moore G Hurdle Win. A. Carriga>,i Sur. Moors: Edward Benson Wm S. Moores REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS TO ESTABLISH 711E BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN ALAMAHCE AND CHATHAM COUNTIES IN PURSUANCE OF THE ACT OF 1896 re The Arovb rho Secretary of State, of North Carolina: ; The undersigned bog leave to report: That W.A. Lineberry (designated As Alsou Lineberry ht the act herein mentioned) of Chatham. County and John X. Coble of Alamance County, Commissioners appointed by act of the General Assembly of North Carolina,entitled"An Act to locate county line between Alamance and Chatham counties" ratified March 13th 1895, with Z. A. Tiorne, of Halifax County, who had been selected as "Third Man" with surveyors.W. L. Spoon of Alamance County and H. H. Slier of Chat- ham County and chain carriers, John R. Adams of Alarnanee County and Ruth W. Johnson of Chatham County, together with examen, met by ap. pointment In the town of Hillsboro. Orange County, on the Sth day of April 1595, and entered upon the discharge of their duty In locating the sounty line between Alamance and Chatham counties as prescribed In said act. They began about twenty five feet North of the pteseet court house in 2113sboro this being the site of the'former court house in 1771. there being no dImmt, and proceeded dote South sixteen mites, finding no evidences of a former Survey. Here the Commisalonors disagreed,and the"Third Man" decided that they proceed due Wast,and they so did to Haw river. Reach. ins the suer, they; for two days and a half, made diligent and careful search on both sides and up the river for two miles, for a monument or mark of the Alamance corner on the Chatham line, and found none. They also sought information by eonsultinr a number of old men who had lots lived in the neighborhood.and found no satisfactory evidence of a corner or Una. They then erected a stunt corner on the right bank of said river,.tan ' fat below the mouth of Martha Jones's spring branch, marked Car. A in � �'l1leot,e of fa+asurt a[plw ee!eaW�r,a.tons,Alaroene,�Couay,ltle•leN,>f TI.Te.