The corporate boundaries of the Village of Simpson until changed in accordance with law are as follows: Located in Grimesland Township, Pitt County, North Carolina, and particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at the intersection of the Southern line of the right of way of the Norfolk and Southern Railroad Company and the Eastern line of State Highway Number S.R. 1755 and runs from said beginning point as follows:
Thence following the Southern right of way line of the said Norfolk and Southern Railroad Company, North 7 5 West, 230 feet to the center line of a ditch which divides the property of Winfield S. Tucker, conveyed to him by deed recorded in Book Y-34 at page 167 and property conveyed to Carrie Talley Briley, deed recorded in Book X-17 at page 592; thence following the center line of said ditch which divides the said Tucker and Briley property and the property owned by Mrs. W. P. Moore, the deed of which is recorded in Book S-20 at page 477, for a distance of 2450 feet to the intersection of said ditch with the center line of Bates Branch, a corner with the said Briley and Moore lands; thence up said Bates Branch, parsing under S.R. 1759, and following the boundary lines between Jimmy Edwards and Mrs. Fred Edwards, also Thomas C. Carson and Mrs. Fred Edwards, for a distance of 2,000 feet, to the point said Bates Branch, intersects the southern property line of Jesse Lee Andrews; thence following the Northern property line of Mrs. Fred Edwards, part of which is the Southern boundary of the W. L. Wootton farm as shown by map recorded in Map Book 2 at page 93, North 85-35 West, 1,550 feet to the dividing line between Lots 10 and 11 of the said W.L. Wootton farm; thence following the dividing line between Lots 10 and 11 and 6 and 7 of said Wootton’s farm, crossing Jefferson Street, North 15-35 East 1359 feet to the Southern right of way line of the Norfolk and Southern Railroad Company; thence following the Southern line of the said Norfolk and Southern Railroad Company right of way, South 74 East, 883 feet, to a point which is in the Eastern line of the said Wootton’s Subdivision and said Railroad right of way, and which is opposite the Southeast corner of property owned by Greenvilles Spinners, Inc.; thence North 15-35 East, crossing the right of way of the said Norfolk and Southern Railroad Company, and following the Eastern property line of Greenvilles Spinners, Inc., which is the Western property line of the Mrs. C. S. Barron’s Heirs, also following the Eastern property line of Dennis Manning, being property conveyed to him by deed recorded in Book H-42 at page 243, 1,860 feet to a point which is the extension of the Southern property line of Elsie Mills Porter; thence South 79 East 800 feet, crossing S.R. 1755, to its Eastern property line, and continuing with the Northern property line of Mrs. C. G. Barron Heirs and the Southern property, line of Elsie Mills Porter, South 79 East, 900 feet, to the Southeast corner of the Lucy Jane Hart property described in deed recorded in Book A-34 at page 675 and continuing with the Southern line of said Lucy Jane Hart and the Northern line of C. G. Barron Heirs, South 79 East, 384 feet, to the Southwest corner of David W. Branch, deed being recorded in Book T-36 at page 240, and continuing with the Branch Barron property line, South 79 East, 453.42 feet to the Western right of way line of S.R. 1759; thence continuing South 79 East across the said S.R. 1759 to its Eastern property line and continuing with the Branch-Barron property line, South 79 East 453.42 feet to the Western right of way line of S.R. 17 59; thence continuing South 79 East, across the said S.R. 1759 60 feet to the eastern right of way line of said S.R. 1759 which is on the property of Arden L. Tucker, thence following the-eastern right of way of S.R. 1759 as it adjoins Arden L. Tucker, South 31-30 West 550 feet to a corner with William L. Tucker land, Deed recorded in Book Q-31 at page 440; thence following the common boundary line between William L. Tucker and Arlen L. Tucker, South 02 East 1325 feet to the northeasterly right of way line of S.R. 1755; also known as Central Street in the Community of Simpson; thence following the said Northern and Eastern right of way line of S.R. 1755, crossing the right of way line of the said Norfolk and Southern Railroad, 244 feet to the Point of Beginning, containing 252 acres, more or less.
The foregoing boundary lines are shown by Map prepared by Rivers and Associates, Inc., dated March 4, 1974, being drawing Number Z - 505, and entitled “Village of Simpson, N. C., proposed town limits.”