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Front: NC Geodetic Survey To: John Marshall Date: CABARRUS Cabarru~ ~vas formed in 1792 from Mecklenburg, It was named in honor of S~ephen Cabarrus of Edenton, several time8 a member of the LegisLature and four time~ speaker of the House of Common~. It is in the south central ~ection of the State and is bounded by StanIY, Union, Mecklenburg, Iredell, a~d Rowan count/es. The present area ia 890 sq~lare m/les and the finn i8 59,893. ]in 1795 an act w~ passed naming corem/a-,toners to erect a courthouse on the land of Samuel Huge), which had already been selected as a proper place for the coat, by seat. They were to lay out the town of Concord. Concord was incorporated in 1805, and /~ tl~e county se~t.~ · .. , the county of Mecklenburg shall be divided aa fol£ow~, ~ ~e~, nJng st where Ire/ell line crosses the e~t branch of Rcckey river, then d~rwn the said branch 'ce /to ~unetfon with the west branch which comes from Colonel OebernoSe, frown thence to where the wag~en road ero~se~ Clef]de oreck, a little to t~e w~st of Captain Pickens, the;nee to ~he barn cf Adam Meek, sen. thence taa cluster o~ forgo rocks a little ~o the of the Bleat road from Colonel /;m/th'~ to Charlotte, no~ far dt~tant from said Smith's, thence to James St~fl%rci's, and from thence to tl~.e mouth Clear creek; and ail that par~ of the county of Mecklenburg aforesaid l~ng west and ~outh of said dividine line, ~]~ail continue &nc~ remain a dis- ~nct oo~nty blt the name of Heekler~buzg; and all fl~at part of the said co~2ty lying north a~d east of said line, ohall be erected into · new and distinct county by the name o:~ Cab~rr~s.TM Part of Meck]enbur~ was an.~exed to Cabarru~ in 1794, ·.., That all that part o! the county cf Mecklenburg, which shall or may be tnch~ded by a line be&dnntnF at Pickeua'n Ford on Clark's cree~, r~nning each n course a~d direction a~ to include the foilcw/ng ~ersona, and the land whereon t~.ey live, to ~,it, John Wile°n, Robert Hops, Zacche~ Wil- son, John 5loan, N~thaniel C~iles, and Do~tor Charles Herr/s, from thence tn the north east corner of Adam Meek', dwelling-heave nn the Cah&rru! line,.so ~ to in&h~de the said Adorn Meek tn ~Iecklenburg county, ehldl be added to the county of Cabarrus lu es full and ernple a manner as if the s~me had been included at the ~/me cf the d/vis/on ....