Buncombe County Register of Deeds, Deed Book 19, Pages 277, 278  

Copied from microfilm in the Buncombe Co. Courthouse, 04 April 2003 

Transcription and footnotes by Linda O. Anders, 20 May 2003 - Originally posted 04 January 2004

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This Indenture made this 4^th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three between John Nicholson Senr. of the County of Habersham and State of Georgia of the one part & Benjamin Wilson of the County of Buncombe and State of North Carolina of the other part witnesseth that the said John Nicholson for and in consideration of the sum of six hundred dollars to him in hand paid by the said B Wilson the receipt whereof the said John Nicholson doth hereby acknowledge hath given granted bargained and sold alliened and confirmed and by these presents doth give grant bargain & sell alien & confirm unto the said B Wilson his heirs & assigns forever all that tract piece or parcel of land situate lying & being in the County of Buncombe & State of North Carolina, Begining on a stone set up by Samuel King & John Nicholson the original was a black oak now dead near the north bank of Grahams creek[1] and runs N. one hundred E. thirty two poles to two post oaks, then N. 75 E seven poles to two small black oaks, then N 5 degrees W forty six poles to two small spanish oaks Then N. 35 D. E forty two poles to a post oak, Then N 10 D. W with the meanders of a branch sixty poles to a post oak & black oak near the head of said branch, Then N. 82 poles to a small spanish oak, Then W. one hundred & forty nine poles to a black gum, then N. thirty-two poles to a small black oak, Then East seventy two poles to a black oak Then N. eight poles to a pine, Then E. forty-six poles to a stone set up by Saml. King & John Nicholson the old corner being dead near small branch, Then down said branch to the creek & down the creek & ditch to the Begining the being four tracts or parts of Tracts containing five hundred & sixty-eight acres more or less & all the woods ways waters courses & all & every appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining & the reversions or reversions remainder & remainders rents & profits of the aforesaid lands & premises & every part thereof & the said John Nicholson doth forever warrant & defend the above mentioned lands from himself his heirs & assigns & from every person or persons lawfully claiming the same or any part thereof unto the said Benjamin Willson his heirs & assigns forever in witness whereof I have set my hand & seal this day & year above written

[1] Graham Creek rises in central Transylvania County and flows NE into Nicholson Creek.-- North Carolina Gazetteer by William S. Powell, page 196, published 1968 by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.