Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1780

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1780
April 17, 1780 - May 10, 1780
Volume 24, Pages 314 - 343

CHAPTER XVIII.

An Act to invest the title of a certain tract of Land therein mentioned in 
William Houston, his heirs and assigns, in fee simple.

I. Whereas it hath been made appear to the satisfaction of the General 
Assembly that William Houston purchased of Henry McCulloch, for two valuable 
considerations, a tract of land in Duplin County, on the northeast of Cape 
Fear river, containing eight hundred and forty acres, granted to the said 
Henry McCulloch by patent bearing date the third day of March, anno domini one 
thousand seven hundred and forty five, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a 
gum on the east branch of the river Cape Fear, and running thence east fifty 
one chains to a pine by the Indian branch, then south twenty degrees west 
eighty seven chains to a lightwood, then south seventy degrees east three 
chains to a pine, then south twenty degrees west fifty seven chains to a large 
pine in a great meadow, then south sixty degrees west forty chains to a stake 
by the said northeast branch of Cape Fear river, then up the various courses 
of the said branch to the first station. And whereas the said William Houston 
hath actually been in quiet and peaceable possession of the aforesaid tract of 
land ever since the year 1747, without any legal conveyance from the late 
Henry McCulloch, and the same being now subject to confiscation, to the great 
injury of the said William Houston; For remedy whereof,

II. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, that 
the title of the said tract of land containing eight hundred and forty acres, 
bounded  before mentioned, shall be, and is hereby, declared to be, invested 
in the said William Houston, his heirs and assigns, in fee simple.





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