This narrow, undated strip has field notes and a small plat for “Charles Roach Land.” The notes begin at a pine and run past Roach’s corner, a corner read as “Cullo” [?], a stake in King’s line, and two pines at King’s corner, then on to a poplar and back to the start. The note on the back gives the course of Hart’s line: north 45 west, 80 poles, to a pine. No acreage, date, surveyor, or witnesses are given, and the county is not named, though the other Roach lands in this folder are in Craven County.
Neighbors named are King, “Cullo” [?], and Hart. The writer’s own words are kept as written below.
Survey notes and plat of Charles Roach’s land, with the courses of Hart’s line, 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.
Charles Roach
Land
Beging at a pine
& Runs west 46 po
to a Stake in [?] line
then No. 30 west 4 po [?]
a pine Roach’s
Corner, then So. 27 [?]
west 100 po to a
Stump, then So. 10
East 13 po to Cullo [?]
Corner, then So. 56
East 80 po to a
Stake in Kings line
then No. 39 East
129 po to two Pines
Kings Corner, then
So. 81 East 42 po to
a poplar then No. 16 [?]
to the Beg.g [?]
44 po [?]
[A small plat is drawn at the end of the strip, with one line marked:] No 45 W 80 po
[On the back:]
The Cors of Harts Line is No. 45 [written over 40] west
80 poles to a pine
Plat of Roach [?]
About the original
This is a long, narrow strip of paper with field notes of a survey of Charles Roach’s land and a rough plat. It is not dated, and the surveyor is not named.
The neighboring lines named are King’s line and King’s corner, a corner read as “Cullo,” and, on the back, Hart’s line. The plat’s line marked “No 45 W 80 po” matches the course of Hart’s line given on the back.
Several figures are uncertain. The name of the line at the first stake could not be read. The last course seems to end with “44 po,” but the reading is uncertain.
Source: Survey notes and plat of Charles Roach’s land, 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.
