J. H. BONNER
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

Aug. 15, ‘58.

WASHINGTON, N. C,

Edmund:

Prompted by your statement, today, or information that michael

anch built the Marsh house, at Bath; , |

<4 a, 1739, John Freeman made a deed to Michael Coutanch,
of Boston, New Englend (2/331, describing: |
"411 those two certain lots or parcels of land, containing
half an acre be the same more or less, with the fronts there-
of and the houses thereon built, and thence to low-water mark;
which said two lots are distinguished and known in the plan
and model of the said town by the Numbers twenty-four and
twenty-five; and are bounded on the south side by the tenement
or lot of James Brown, and on the north by the lot of James

Brickell".
The old Bath map is dated Aug. 23, 1807 (sometime after the date

of the above deed); but shows the Numbers 24 and &5.
Lots 24 and 25 are a part of the old Marsh property, fronting

the street. ree

No deeds by or from vLoutench.

Michael Gouténeki maids his "411 -- March 9th, 1758. —
“To his wife he gave the use of half of his dwelling-house,
kitchen, smoke house, garden, orchard and land adjoining
Bath Town, during her widowhood. :
lo his son, Michael, he gave four lots, together with my
“awelling house and stores and other houses thereon .

One inference could be, from his Will, that his dwelling-house

adjoined the town of Bath, and Was not in the town. Note
that he said “adjoining Bath Town’.

Or the inference could be, in the devise to his son of four
lots, “with my awelling-house, stores" ete, that his dwell-
ing was in the town. He had deed for Lots £4 and co. -
There are no deeds from his son, Michael, Junior, and no “ill
by this "tory". | : ,
Michael Coutanch may have been in the category with Christopher
Dudley (who patented the land upon which the east part of

Washington is located). C
Dudley was a lory, whose land was confiscated after the “ev-

olution; but there is no public record of this. At least,

there are no deeds here by or from Dudley. |
So there are no deeds of record here from Vouteanch, although
a Will to his son. His son might have been shuffling the
cards with Cornwallis! :

It's hazy to me; and I can't conclude that lichael Coutanch
built the Marsh house. His name sounds in French!

Cordially:

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Admiralty; land titles and boundaries;
actions in devistavit vel non.

 

Office practice limited to:

Conveyancing; abstracting; probates of
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