Land Grant to Mayo Carrington

Name/Title

Land Grant to Mayo Carrington

Entry/Object ID

78.67.1

Description

Iron gall ink on vellum. Land grant signed by Patrick Henry while governor of Virginia, giving land to Mayo Carrington on May 20, 1786.

Collection

Patrick & Dorothea Henry Collection

Transcription

Transcription

Patrick Henry, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of VIRGINIA, TO ALL AND TO WHOM these Presents shall come. GREETING: KNOW YE that by virtue and in consideration of __ __ Military Warrant Number Two thousand Six hundred and seven, and issued the twenty seventh day of February One Thousand and seven hundred and eighty five. There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Mayo Carrington assignee a certain tract or parcel of land, containing Six hundred acres by Survey leasing date the Seventeenth day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty six lying and being in the District set apart for the Officers and Soldiers of the Continental line and on Green River and Bounded as follows to wit: Beginning at a Sugar tree and ash near a branch lower corner to Abraham Bufords 1000 Acre Survey in said River running thence down the River North Sixty degrees West One hundred and eighty poles to a white Oak and Sugar Tree on the River Bank upper corner to Lawrence Keene and Dates by Joness 1000 acres. Entry thence with the South thirty eight degrees West four hundred poles to a Spanish Oak and Hickory on the side of a hill in Kennes and Joness' land thence South Fifty two degrees East three hundred and four poles to a White Oak and Hickory and ___ comes to said Bufords and then with his line North twenty two degrees East four hundred 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 Mayo Carrington and his heirs forever. IN WITNESS where the said Patrick Henry Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his Hand and caused the lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth to the affixed at Richmond, on the twentieth day of May in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Six and of the Commonwealth the tenth. P. Henry

Language

English

Dimensions

Width

14-1/2 in

Length

14-1/2 in

Provenance

Notes

Land grant signed by Patrick Henry while governor in 1786 giving land to Mayo Carrington, who served as a major of Virginia troops in the Continental Line. According to Robert Meade, Capt. Mayo Carrington was listed as an original Virginia member of the Society of the Cincinnati. The rank is the actual one without any brevets. This grant was as purchased at Wilson Galleries on November 18, 1978, in Verona, Virginia from the estate of James Lewis of Free Union, Virginia.