Land Grant to Patrick Henry

Letter

Patrick Henry's Red Hill

Name/Title

Land Grant to Patrick Henry

Entry/Object ID

2022.14

Description

Land grant, iron gall ink on vellum. Signed by Lieutenant Governor Beverley Randolph to Governor Patrick Henry on April 4, 1786. Includes embossed paper seal in lower left margin, large signature in lower right margin. Writing is extremely faded.

Collection

Patrick & Dorothea Henry Collection

Transcription

Beverley Randolph Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of VIRGINIA. TO ALL WHOM these Presents shall come, Greeting: KNOW YE, that by [faded & illegible] ... there is granted by the said Commonwealth until Patrick henry Esq. [faded & illegible] ... a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing [faded & illegible] ... with its Appurtenances; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract of Land with its Appurtenances, to the said Patrick Henry Esq. and his Heirs forever. IN WITNESS whereof, the said Beverley Randolph Esq. Lieut. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his Hand, and caused the lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond, on the fourth of Day of April in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-six and of the Commonwealth the tenth. Beverley Randolph

Language

English

Dimensions

Width

12-3/4 in

Length

15-1/2 in

Provenance

Notes

This land grant was issued to Patrick Henry. Because Henry was governor in 1786, his lieutenant governor, Beverley Randolph, signed and issued the land grant to Henry on April 4 of that year. Beverley Randolph (1754–1797) served as lieutenant governor under Patrick Henry. He was born in 1754 and was educated at the College of William and Mary. He served in the militia during the American Revolution, was a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1777 to 1780. Randolph was elected governor of Virginia in 1788, the first to be elected after Virginia ratified the US Constitution, and served until 1791. He died on his farm near Green Creek in Cumberland County, Virginia, on February 7, 1797. PHMF purchased this grant from University Auctions on August 8, 2022.