John Vaught's Royal Charter

**John Vaught, Sr. is the great-great-grandfather of Shadrack Vaught**






SOUTH CAROLINA;

GEORGE the Third, by Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, To All To Whom THESE PRESENTS Shall come:

Greeting: KNOW YE THAT WE OF OUR Special Grace, certain knowledge and mere Motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs, and successors DO GIVE AND GRANT UNTO;

JOHN VAUGHT

his heirs and assigns, a plantation or tract of land containing:

TWO HUNDRED ACRES SITUATE IN CRAVEN COUNTY BETWEEN LITTLE PEE DEE AND WACCAMAW BOUNDING SOUTH WESTWARDLY ON LAND LAID OUT TO JONATHAN DRAKE ALL OTHER SIDES ON VACANT LAND.

and hath such shape, form and marks as appear by a plat thereof, herunto annexed: together with all woods, underwoods, timber and timber trees, lakes, ponds, fishings, waters, watercourses, profits, commodities, appurtenances and heritaments whatsoever, thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining together with privilege of hunting and hawking and fowling in and upon the same, and all mines minerals, whatsoever, saving and referring and reserving, never the less, to us our heirs and successors, all white pine trees, if any there should be found growing thereon: and also saving and reserving, never the less to us, our heirs, and successors, one tenth part of mines of gold and silver only: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of

TWO HUNDRED ACRES
of land, and all and singular other premises hereby granted the said:

JOHN VAUGHT
his heirs and assigns forever, in free and common soccage, the said

JOHN VAUGHT
his heirs and assigns yielding and paying therefor unto us, our heirs and successours, or to our Receiver-General for the time being, or to his Deputy or Deputies, for the time being, yearly, that is to say, on the twenty fifth day of March, in every year, at the rate of three shillings sterling or four shillings proclaimation money, for every hundred acres, and so in proportion according to the numbers of acres, contained herein, the same to commence at the expiration of two years from the date hereof, Provided always and this present Grant is upon condition never the less that the said:

JOHN VAUGHT
his heirs or assigns, shall and do yearly and every year after the date of these presents, clear and cultivate at the rate of three acres per hundred acres of land, and so in proportion according to the number of acres herein container: and so shall and do enter a minute or docket of these our letters patent in the office of our Auditor General for the time being in our said province, within six months of the date hereof: and upon condition, that if the said rent, hereby reserved shall happen to be in arrear and unpaid for the space of three years from the time it shall become due, and no distress can be found on the said lands, tenements and hereditaments hereby granted, or if the said:

JOHN VAUGHT
his heirs or assigns shall neglect to clear and cultivate yearly and every year at the rate of three acres for every hundred acres of land, and so in proportion, according to the number of acres herein container, or if a minute or docket of these our letters patent, shall not be entered in the office of our Auditor General for the time being, in our said province, within six months from the date hereof, that then and in any of these cases, this present Grant shall cease and determine and be utterly void: and the said lands tenements and hereditaments hereby granted, and every part and parcel thereof, shall revert to us, our heirs and successours, as fully and absolutely, as if the same had never been Granted.

Given under the Great Seal of our Said Province:

WITNESSES: The Great Honorable William Bull Esq.

Leuit. Governor and commander in chief in and over our said province of South Carolina, this TENTH day of JANUARY, Anno Dom. 1771, the the eleventh year of our reign.

And hath thereunto a plat thereof annexed, representing the same, certified by:

John Bremar, Deputy Surveyor General
29th November
1770