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Land Office Grant to Benjamin BUTTERWORTH,
dated 31 Mar 1789 Virginia Land Office Grants No. 19, 1788-1789, pp. 331-332 Transcript by Marna L. Clemons, 31 October 2001 |
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Beverley Randolph
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 an Exchanged
Land Office Treasury Warrant Number Two hundred Sixty nine Issued the third
day of October One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty five There is Granted
by the said Commonwealth unto Benjamin Butterworth assignee of Thomas Ramsay
who was assignee of Robert Brown a Certain Tract or parcel of Land Containing
One Hundred and forty acres by Survey bearing date the Ninth day of May
One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Six lying and being in the County
of Campbell on East branches of the South fork of Seneca Creek and Bounded
as followeth To wit Beginning in Gilberts Road on a ridge on Hamesleys line
thence along his line North forty six degrees West twelve poles to his Corner
red oak on Hairstons Line thence along Hairstons Line South Seventy five
degrees West One hundred and Sixty eight poles to his Corner Small hickory
on Butterworths Line thence along Butterworths Line South thirty five degrees
West One hundred and Ninety eight poles to his Corner Shrub White oak South
two Degrees East forty two poles to Robert Brown Corner White oak thence
along Browns Line North Eighty two degrees East Eighty Eight poles to Gilberts
Road aforesaid on the said Ridge thence down the Road, the same being Ramseys
line as it meanders to the Beginning With its appurtenances To have and
To hold the Said Tract or parcel of Land with its Appurtenances to the said
Benjamin Butterworth and his heirs forever In Witness whereof the Said Beverley
Randolph Esquire 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 thirty first day of March in the Year of our Lord one
Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Nine and of the Commonwealth the Thirteenth.
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