The Vanderburg Gold Mine

In the year 1799, a 17 pound gold nuggett was discovered in Cabarrus County and until 1850 that area produced more gold than any area in the U.S. There was a Vanderburg Gold Mine located in Cabarrus County. This mine was Incorporated under New York law. The 52 acre tract that included the gold mine was sold to the Buffalo and North Carolina Mining Company on the 17th of August 1868. The history and the stock distribution of the Vanderburg Gold Mine, Inc. is not known. "copied the deed arrangement w/ the New York Co. off of micro-film. It is very difficult to make out. Regarding the property lines etc. the only identifier to help me is that part of the boundary was Adams Creek. I am going to attempt to transcribe a portion" Christina Hunt on the Carolina_Gen conference FidoNet "All that tract or parcel of land lying in the County of Cabarrus in the State of North Carolina bounded and described as follows to wit Lying on the waters of Adams Creek Beginning at a stake in Wiley Clines line near the school house on the west side of the Great Road and runs thence North nineteen (?) and one half degrees East twelve and three quarter poles crossing a branch to a stake on the side of the Great Road thence with said road North eleven degrees west twenty six poles to a stake North Seven degrees East thirty five and one half poles to a stake thence North twelve degrees East twenty nine and one half poles Crossing a branch to an Elm (dead) thence North one and one half degrees West fifty nine poles to a stake M A Blackwelders Corner thence with said Blackwelders line South seventy three degrees West One hundred and twenty poles to a Post Oak said Blackwelders and George Clines corner thence South twenty one degrees East eighteen and half poles to a stake formerley a Hickory said Clines Corner thence South Seventy eight degrees east sixty six poles to a stake said Clines Corner thence South twenty nine degrees East one hundred and two and one half poles to the place of Beginning Containing fifty two acres be the same more or less and being the same premeses convered to the party of the first part..." "My husband has a book of Topo Maps he bought for camping and Adams Creek is on it to the east and south of Mount Pleasant. Hwy 49 crosses the Creek and is an old Hwy if I understand correctly. We live off Hwy 49 in S.W. Charlotte and it has been here since the Indians used it to go North. Reeds Gold Mine looks to be 6 or 7 miles south of Mount Pleasant. I did question an acquaintance about whether Reeds Gold Mine had a library and was told there was a librarian or historian or ? who could probably help with this question. I just have never gone up there yet. I had hoped a more extensive topo of this area might show an old mine. Will try to get a hold of one or learn the # of which US Geological Survey Map would show the area. Well, thats where I am w/ it. RE: the description, the lack of punctuation is from the document. I tried to copy as closely as I could.