Very informative article! This may help me in a dilemma I have with land records. My ancestor John Hindman had a 100 acre grant in Craven County surveyed March 15,1773, granted May 4th,1775, and the Memorial is dated Sept. 15, 1775 for a plat on London Bridge Creek off Broad River that appears to have been in NC before the state boundary change. Only one other person, Francis Wilkey, had adjoining land and his Memorial notes his land was in NC then SC. John's Memorial does not say that. Both John and Francis signed a petition dated May 15,1775 protesting having to obtain new land grants after the border change. Subsequently I can find no record of what happened to John's original land grant. There are no further land records or plats mentioning his ownership. I have extensively searched for the purpose of making sure my John Hindman is the same John who immigrated in 1772 from Antrim Ireland and got that land grant. I have often thought that perhaps my John never settled on that land because of the Indian conflicts and then the Rev War conflicts in the area.
Anyway, my John Hindman wound up in 1790 living in Spartanburg on Cane Creek, a subsidiary of the Tyger River, and that land is well-documented. Pruitts were neighbors, actually Thomas Pruitt bought from Samuel Daline (son of John) a plot of land in May 1809 that Samuel (brother of John) sold to John in 1791, land that Samuel bought from Joshua Smith in Dec 1788 who bought it from Owen Forrester who was granted the land in 1787. (whew!!).
Just thought I'd relate my experience to show how complicated tracing land records can be and getting info like these surveyor instructions is very appreciated.
