First Recorded Land Deed in North Carolina



CHIEF KILCOCANEN DEED TO GEORGE DURANT - March 1, 1661

Know all men by these presents that I, Kilcocanen, King of Yeopim have for a valuable consideration of satisfaction received with ye consent of my people sold and made over & delivered to George Durant a parcell of land lying & being on Roanoke Sound & on a River called by ye name of Perquimans which issueth out of the north side of the aforesaid sound which land at present bears ye name of Wicocomicke, beginning at a marked oak tree which divided this land from ye land I formerly sold to Sam Pricklove and extending westerly up ye said sound to a point, point or turning of ye aforesaid Perquimans river and so up the eastward side of ye said creek called by ye name of Owoseake to wit all ye land betwixt ye aforesaid bounds of Samuel Pricklove & the said creek thence to ye head thereof and thence through ye woods to ye first bounds to have and to hold ye quiet possession of ye same to him & his heirs forever, with all rights and privileges thereto forever from me or any person or persons whatsoever as witness my hand this first day of March 1661.

Test Tho. Weamouth                       ye marke of
Caleb Calleway                               Kilcocanen
                                                            or Kirtotanew.

This is a true copie examined word by word out of ye original by me Edward Remington

Witnesss:                                            Registered the 24th of Oct. 1716
Will Lloyd                                            John Stephney, Register
Thomas Havett



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