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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 and in Consideration of part of Land Office Treasury Warrant. Numbers Eleven hundred and Issued the ninth day of June one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Abraham Hite
a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing Five hundred Seventy acres by survey bearing date the Seventeenth day of June, one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty four lying and being in the County of Fayette and bounded asfolloweth To wit, Beginning at two Cedars white oak and Mulberry on the Clift of Kentucky River and comes to his Survey of Three hundred and Thirty acres and running from thence North only five degrees East Two hundred and Thirty Poles to two black oaks and ash thence North one hundred Poles to a black ash hickory and Locust thence North Seven degrees West one hundred and forty eight Poles to four Sugar trees white oak and Mulberry. Thence North forty five degrees West one hundred and twenty Poles to a poplar white oak and hickory thence South thirty eight degrees West. three hundred and Eighty Poles to a white oak corner to his 330 acre Survey thence with the line there of S31° E260 poles to the Beginning —
with its Apportenances; TO HAVE TO HOLD the said Tract of Parcel of Land with its Apportenances, to the said Abraham Hite – and his Heirs forever. 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 –Second Day of February – in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Six and of the Commonwealth the Tenths
[Signed in the hand of Patrick Henry]
P. Henry
[Reverse]
Abraham Hite is Entitled to the Within mentioned Tract of Land.
Abraham Hite
570 Acres
Fayette County
Clover Bottom
Exd. Recorded & Exd.Language
English