Board of Education v. . Remick

On 22 January, 1795, a grant was issued to Daniel Wheaton for 44,160 acres of land lying in New Hanover County, near Pender, that is commonly known as "swamp lands." On 18 (565) December, 1899, William Nutt, sheriff of New Hanover, executed a tax deed to Benjamin Williams, Governor, for the said property, and the title remained in the Governor and his successors until it was vested in the Literary Fund by Laws 1825, ch. 1268, sec. 1, which transferred to said fund for the support of common schools, together with other property, "all of the vacant and unappropriated swamp lands in the State,"…