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to a pine in the cypress swamp then down the swamp various courses to a
gum on Alligator River thence the meander of the river to the first
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John Mixon to John Owens,
210 acres on East side of Alligator River, 1728 |
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Ann Whidbee to William Smith
75 acres on North side of Alligator Creek 1740 |
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Darby Phelps to Joshua
Alexander, 100 acres, Alligator River, Stumpy Point, 1743. |
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Benjamin Cowell to
Solomon Cowell, 200 acres on East side of Alligator River, 1755 |
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Zachariah Owens to
Adam Owens, 50 acres on East side of Alligator River, 1769 |
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Caleb Burkit to
Zachariah Hunnings, 77 acres on East side of Alligator River, 1771 |
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Zachariah Hunnings to
Adam Owens, 28 acres on East side of Alligator River, 1772 |
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Zachariah Owens to
David Cooper, 640 acres on West side of Alligator River, 1773 |
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Adam Owens to Joshua
Gard, 50 acres on East side of Alligator River 1773 |
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Joseph Whidbee to
Thomas Owens, 100 acres on East side of Great Alligator River, 1780 |
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State Grant #(148) to
John Hooker, 110 acres on East side of Alligator River, and North side
of Miltail Creek, 1782 |
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State Grant #(161)
to Benjamin Cowell, 360 acres on East side of Alligator River, 1782 |
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State Grant #(189)
to Zachariah Hunnings, 100 acres on a lake up Milltail, 1782. |
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State Grant #(228) to
Thomas Owens, 100 acres on West side of South River, 1783 |
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State Grant #(277) to
Thomas Owens, 53 acres East side of Alligator River, 1783 |
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State Grant #(278) to
Thomas Owens, 25 acres, 1783 |
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State Grant #(279) to
Thomas Owens, 34 acres, East side of Alligator River, 1783 |
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State Grant #(313) to
John Hooker, 100 acres on East side of Great Alligator River, on Miltail
Creek, 1783 |
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State Grant #(322) to
Thomas Owens, 50 acres, 1783 |
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State Grant #(354) to
John Hooker, 150 acres on East side of Great Alligator River, on Miltail
Creek, 1783 |
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Terms: |
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Administrator - A person appointed by the court to
settle the estate of someone who died intestate. |
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Alien - To transfer land or title to another. |
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Appurtenances - Easements, rights of way, or agreements
attached to land. |
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Assigns - Anyone acting on behalf of or in place of the
owner. |
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Bargain - Mutual agreement among people to exchange or
purchase goods. |
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Demise - Synonym for lease. |
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Dower - A wife's interest in her husband's property,
inheritable at his death. |
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Enfeoff - To invest with an estate held in fee. |
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Escheat - Land ownership reverting to the Crown,
government, or estate owner because of lack of heirs. |
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Executor - The person named in a will to carry out the
terms of the will. |
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Fee simple - Ownership of land that can be inherited by
any heirs. |
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Feoffment - Transfer of inheritable real property. |
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Grant - Transfer of title from the government to the
first titleholder of a piece of property. |
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Hereditament - Anything that can be inherited. |
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Intestate - Having no will. |
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Jointure - Property given to a prospective wife. To be
enjoyed by her at her husband's death. |
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Messuage - A dwelling house with its adjacent buildings
and land appropriated to the use of the household. |
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Quitrent - A rent paid in lieu of required feudal
services. |
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Seizin - Possession of a freehold estate. |
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Teste - Witness |
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Testate - Having a will. |
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