Joseph Register Jr. to Matthew Johnston Deed 27 July 1784
(Contributed by Fran West)Book 8 Page 247. Deed:Joseph Register,Jr.,to Matthew Johnston (a merchant of New Hanover County). Dated;27 July 1784. Trans.:200 pounds "good and lawfull money of the State" for 200 acres, "part of Two tracts." The first tract consisted of 100 acres "on the west side of the Six Runs." Deed mentions Richard James. Land was "as appears by Pattent." The second tract consisted of 100 acres "On the west side of the six Runs it Being part of a tract of land granted to Richard James and also the Remant (sic) part of a tract On the East side of the six Runs the River Called the six Runs Now Occupies by Saml.Sellers Senior and on the west side and adjoining the above mentioned hundred acres pattented by fewe (sic) Hare." Wit.:Tho.Register and Frederick Merritt.
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