Eli Branson Honeycut Land Grant #3148, File #2784

State of North Carolina
File 2784 No. 3148 Know that we have granted unto Eli Branson Honeycut one hundred acres of Land in Montgomery County on the waters of Hartsills branch Beginning on Dempsey Honeycut’s corner, also the same corner of Adam Honeycuts 100 acres Survey and runs North Sixty eight West twelve chains with said D. Honeycuts line to George H. Honeycuts corner stake thence with said G. H. Honeycuts North seventeen East eighteen chains to his corner stake by pointers, thence South eighty four East seventy three chains and fifty links to a stake, thence South five East six chains to a stake thence direct course to the beginning. Entered the 3^rd April 1837 To Hold to the said Eli Branson Honeycut his heirs and assigns forever. Dated the 2^nd of March 1838.
Wm. Hill, Secretary                                                       Edw B. Dudley


Mentioned within this one Land Grant are four Honeycutt landowners:

• Eli Branson Honeycut
• Dempsey Honeycut
• Adam Honeycut, to be of age to own property in 1837; this Adam Honeycut was born sometime prior to 1816 thus documenting a Adam W. Honeycutt that no one seems to have in their On-line trees.
• George H. Honeycut

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[1] Grant #3148 - Eli Branson Honeycut, 3 April 1837, Book #143, page 587; North Carolina State Archives of North Carolina North Carolina Land Grants, http://www.nclandgrants.com/home.htm, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina.