Chatham deed book C p. 409
1784 # 664
...for and in consideration of the sum of fifty shillings for every hundred acres hereby granted paid into our treasury by John Hardin have given and granted and by these presents do … grant unto … John Hardin a tract of land containing one hundred acres lying and being in our county of Chatham on Fall Creek the South Side of Cape Fear Beginning at a post Oak Wamucks Corner on the County line Turning with Said Line west two hundred and six pole to a pine then North Seventy eight pole to a Black Oak Corner to his former Entry of one hundred and fifty acres thence East two hundred and six pole with said line to a black oakon Wamuchs Line thence south seventy eight pole with said line to the first station as by the plat hereunto annexed doth appear …  

Giving and paying to all such sums of money yearly or otherwise as Our General Assembly from Time to Time may Direct Provided Always that the said John Harden shall cause this grant to be registered in the Registers office our our said county of Chatham within twelve months from the date hereof otherwise the same shall be Void and of no Effect.

IN TESTIMONY Whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent and Our Great Seal to be hereunto affixed.

Witness Alexander Martin Esquire Our Governor Captain General and Commander in Chief at New Bern the first Day of November in the Ninth year of our independence and in the year of Our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty four. 
/s/ Alex Martin (seal)
By His Duly Com'd. J. G. Haugen Secretary

Source: scanned deed books and deeds at the Chatham County Register of Deeds, online, chathamncrod.org

Book D, page 411. 
1784 #656
For the sum of fifty shillings for every hundred acres hereby granted paid into Our Treasury by John Hardin … do grant unto … John Harden, a tract of land containing one hundred and fifty acres lying and being in our county of Chatham on the South Side of Cape Fear. Beginning at a pine Henry Brasswell line to a post oak thence east one hundred and thirty three pole to a post oak Wamocks corner thence north ninety seven pole with said line to a black oak thence west fifty eight pole with said Wamocks line to a pine Joseph Allins Corner thence north one hundred and fifty pole with said line to a pine Allens corner thence west seventy five pole to the first station as by the plat hereunto annexed doth appear. 
 
...to hold to the said John Hard his heirs and assngns forever. Yielding and paying to us such sums of money yearly or otherwise as our General Assembly from time to time shall direct PROVIDED always that the said John Harden shall cause this grant to be registered in the registers office of ourr said county of CHATHAM within twelve Months from the date hereof otherwise the same shall be Void and of no Effect.

In testimony whereof we have caused these our letters to be made petent and our great seal to be hereunto affixed.
 Witness Alexander Martin Esquire Our Governor Captain General and commandeer of Chief at New Bern the first Day of November in the ninth year of Our Independence and in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty four.

By His Excelly's Com'd.  /s/Alexr Martin (seal)
J G. Laaxgon? Secretary

Source: scanned deed books and deeds at the Chatham County Register of Deeds, online, chathamncrod.org