Land Grant to David Tanner

Letter

Patrick Henry's Red Hill

Name/Title

Land Grant to David Tanner

Entry/Object ID

86.7

Description

Land grant of September 20, 1782, to David Tanner for one thousand acres in Lincoln County, Virginia, signed by Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia.

Collection

Patrick & Dorothea Henry Collection

Transcription

Patrick Henry Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, To all to whom there presents shall come, Greetings : KNOW YE, that by virtue and in accordance of Part ordained Office Treasury Warrant Number Ten Thousand six hundred and ninety four asigned the fifteenth day of January one Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty-two there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto David Tanner assignee of Emanuel Kelly who was asignee of Charles Patterson a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing one Thousand acres by Surrey _________ the fifteenth day of July one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty- four, laying acres being in the county of Lincoln out the Waters of Otter Creek and Muddy Creek and bounded as followath to each , Beginning at a Mulberry and hickory Sapling in Richard Harrison’s line where Smith’s line crosses the fence hence South with Smith’s line. Two hundred and fifty poles to his South East corner a white oak continuing the course South one hundred acres twenty-five poles to the line of Copper’s Settlement to a hickory and two post oaks hence East with the same, two hundred and forty poles to his North East corner a white oak and a Cherry continuing the courses East one hundred forty-one poles to a white oak and dogwood hence. North four hundred & sixty-four poles ____ _____ branches to a mulberry, red bud, and a dogwood in a balloe’ hill Then west one hundred & seventy-nine poles to the hickory in Harrison’s line Hence South seventy-nine poles with said line to his South East corner Hence West Two hundred and five poles to the beginning with its Appurtenances; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said Tract of Parcel of Land with its Appurtenances, to the said David Tanner and his Heirs forever IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said Patrick Henry Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath here unto set his hand, and caused the letter Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond, on the fifteenth day of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-five and of the Commonwealth the Eleventh. P Henry

Language

English

Dimensions

Width

15 in

Length

14 in

Provenance

Notes

This land grant was issued to David Tanner, a former foot soldier in the American Revolution, for 1,000 acres of land in Lincoln County in 1782. Patrick Henry, governor of Virginia at the time, signed it in 1785. Lincoln County, Virginia, became part of the new state of Kentucky in 1792. Tanner moved there from Northern, Virginia, and built a house on the land. The house was no longer standing in 1986, when research about the grant was completed by Red Hill. The PHMF acquired the land grant on May 17, 1986, as a gift from the Heritage Collectors Society of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, the organization that authenticated the document. The principal donors were Stuart B. Fallen (Clerk of Court in Charlotte Court House, Virginia) and his wife Kathy, who donated funds for the purchase in memory of their fathers, John McLeod Alexander and Henry Vest Fallen.