Beverley
Randolph Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to
all whom these presents shall come Greeting: Know ye, by virtue
and in consideration of part of a Pre-emption warrant, number
two thousand three hundred and fifty seven, issued the tenth day
of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, there is
granted by the said Commonwealth unto George Pearis a
certain tract or parcel of land containing six hundred acres by
survey bearing date the twenty fifth day of February one
thousand seven hundred eighty five. Lying and being in the
county Montgomery on the right hand fork of Brush Creek a branch
of New River and joining his settlement rights and bounded as
followeth, towit, beginning at a white oak on a branch that
emptied into the same and runneth thence South fifty two degrees
East one hundred and sixty poles to a white oak, South sixty
five degrees East forty two poles crossing the right hand fork,
thence down the same, North thirty three degrees East eighty
poles, North seventy seven degrees East sixty poles, crossing
the left hand fork above the fork Sick to a Buckeye, north
twenty four degrees East forty poles to a white oak, North
seventy one degrees East, two hundred and ten poles to two
hickories, South sixty four degrees East ninety poles to a
sugartree, North twenty degrees West forty poles crossing the
main branch to a double pine, South eighty nine degrees West one
hundred and thirty six poles to a red oak and two white oaks,
north fifty eight degrees west two hundred and seventy poles to
a bunch of white oaks on a ridge. South thirty five degrees West
three hundred and forty three poles to the beginning. With its
appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of
land with its appurtenances to the said George Pearis and
his heirs for ever, in witness who is of the said Beverley
Randolph Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath
here unto set his hand and caused the ? Seal of the said
Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the fourteenth day of
September one thousand seven hundred ninety one and of the
Commonwealth the sixteenth.
Beverley Randolph |
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