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Patrick Henry Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of VIRGINIA, TO ALL TO WHOM these Presents shall come, GREETING: KNOW YE, that by Virtue of a Certificate in right of Settlement given by the commission is for adjusting Titles to unpatented Lands in the District of Washington & Montgomery & in consideration of the [___] composition of one pound Sterling paid by William Smith into the Treasury of this commonwealth –
— there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto the said William Smith –
a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing One hundred & Sixty acres by Survey bearing date the fifteenth day of January one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty five lying and being in the county of Washington in the Rich Valley on both sides of Abrahams Creeks a South Branch of the North fork of Holstein River and Bounded as followeth, To wit, Beginning at a poplar in the Gap of a ridge corner to James Sprowle’s Land and with a line thereof North Sixty nine degrees West One hundred & fourteen poles passing Sprowle’s Corner & crossing the creek to a white oak & black oak South thirty nine degrees West ninety three poles to a white oak and Hickory Sapling South forty Six degrees West forty one poles to a white oak South fifty degrees West One hundred & fifty Seven poles crossing the creek to a Spanish Oak and black oak; South forty degrees East Eighty eight poles & crossing a Branch to a forked poplar & Dogwood Sapling at the foot of Walkers Mountain; and along the same North forty nine degrees East three hundred & forty Six 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 William Smith – and his Heirs for ever.
IN WITNESS whereof, the said Patrick Henry Esq 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 Twentieth Day of October in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty- Six and of the Commonwealth the Eleventh.
[Signed in the hand of Patrick Henry]
P. Henry
[Page 2]
William Smith is Intitled to the within mentioned Tract of Land –
[Signed in the hand of John Havre]
John Havre Re. S. Off.
William Smith
160 acres
Washington –
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English