This small undated slip copies the courses of John Pain’s patent for 200 acres. The land began at a white oak and ran north 35 east 120 poles to a pine, north 50 west 268 poles to an oak, and south 35 west to a pine, then back to the start. No county, neighbors or patent date are given.
There are no witnesses. John Payne’s line is named in the 1756 Swafford survey and the 1778 Swaffer–Roach deed in this folder, and the 1812 and 1816 Butler deeds are for part of a patent to John Paine of 1754, so this is probably the same Payne patent on Swift Creek. The writer’s own words are kept as written below.
Courses of the John Pain patent, 200 acres – undated
Transcription notes: spelling, capitalization and punctuation follow the original. Words in [square brackets] are editorial notes; [?] marks an uncertain reading and [illegible] marks words that could not be read.
Courses of the John Pain Patten
beginning at a white Oak and runs No
35 Est 120 pole to a pine then No 50 west 268 pole
to an Oak then South 35 west to a pine then to the
beginning containing 200 acres
About the original
This is a small slip with the courses (boundary lines) of John Pain’s patent copied out. It has no date, no county and no names of neighbors. The back has only the ink showing through from the front and a number, 233 [?], written in pencil or faint ink.
“Patten” means patent. The third course gives no distance.
John Payne’s line is named as the neighbor in the 1756 Swafford survey and the 1778 Swaffer–Roach deed in this folder, so this is probably the Payne patent that joined the Swafford–Roach land on Swift Creek. The paper itself does not say so.
Source: Courses of the John Pain patent, undated. Roach Family Papers (#346), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, Box 1, Folder c (Land Records, 1728–1886). Collection guide. Digitized folder: ECU Digital Collections, 0346-b1-fc.
Images courtesy of East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. View this item in ECU Digital Collections.
Part of the Roach Family Papers collection on East Carolina Roots.
