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LAND RECORDS OF ASHE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
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(6) Book V, p. 429. Indenture dated 7 Dec 1800 (sic: probably 1808) 
from WILLIAM HOLLINSWORTH to Elijah Powell. $100.00 for the same 44 1/4
acres described in Item 5 above, except the clause "joining the tract 
said Powell lives on" is to be substituted. (It appears we did not take
into consideration in 1968 the fact that Deed Book V contains the deeds
which ought to be in B or C - Editor. The films were rented by another
patron and the General Index film was not among them so we just read 
each book, A, B, C, etc. V was not among them.  Poor excuse!)

(7) Book V, p. 438. Indenture dated ____ 1808 from WILLIAM HOLLINGSWORTH 
to Elijah Powell. $100.00 Fifty acres, the same legal description in Item
1 above. (Proved by John Reed, a witness, before the August Term of 
1811 per Minutes, Pleas & Quarter Sessions.) 

(8) Indenture 12 Sept. 1808, from Joseph Calloway to VINCENT HOLLINSWORTH
for $5.00 "Situate on the North Side of the North Fork of New River be
the same more or less bounded as follows, Beginning at a Stake on the 
North Bank of said River running West thirty poles to a stake then south
fifty poles to a stake on the River Bank, then down the meanders of said
River to the first station." (Elisha Callaway (sic) proved this deed as
a witness thereto before the November 1811 session of the court. The name 
is "VINSON" in these minutes.) V p.490. Joseph B. Bunyard and Elisha 
Collins, wits. R.P.H. 

(9) Indenture dated 28 November 1808 from William Gray to WILLIAM 
HOLLINSWORTH, for 165 acres at $150.00 Book V, p. 496. "A certain tract
of land lying and being on the waters of the North Fork of New River
containing by estimation one hundred and sixty five acres be the same
more or less. Beginning at a Beach (sic) in the conditional line between 
Calloway and WILLIAM HOLLINGSWORTH, tunning along said line to the
River in the conditional line of VINCENT HOLLINGSWORTH, then up the
meanders of said River to the old line Reed Corner then South with the
Reed Line one hundred poles to a stake in Ambros Collins, then East
with his line to a stake in McLains line, then North with his line fifty 
six poles to a Spanish Oak his corner then East with his line one
hundred sixty poles to a Maple his corner then South fifty six poles
to a stake in Collins line, then East with his line sixty six poles to
a stake, then North to the conditional line of the first beginning,
then to the first station." Alexander Latham, Wm. Curnutt, witnesses.

(10) Book V, p. 497. Indenture dated 22 March 1808, from WILLIAM 
HOLLINSWORTH to James Reed, "A Certain parcel of land lying on the 
North Fork of New River containing one hundred and thirty five acres 
be the same more or less, Beginning at a Hickory stump the old corner 
running West sixty two poles to a Beach, then North thirty five East 
twenty poles to the River Bank, then North thirty west up said River 
to the mouth of a Branch, then North up said Branch one hundred and 
thirty poles to the Old Line, then east eighty two poles to the old 
corner, then to the first station, for $200.00 (This deed follows 
next item but was recorded first - Ed.) 
(Proved in Feb. Court 1812.) 

(11) Book V, p. 500. Indenture dated 22 Mar 1808. VINCENT HOLLINSWORTH
to WILLIAM HOLLINSWORTH. 135 acres for $200.00 - same land in Item 10.
(Proved in Court Feb. 1812 sessions.)


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