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Land Office Grant to Hezekiah PIGG, 18 Mar 1784
Virginia Land Office Grants K, 1783-1784, pp. 383-384 Transcript by Marna L. Clemons, 31 October 2001 |
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Benjamin Harrison
Esquire Governour of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all to whom these presents
shall come Greeting Know ye that in consideration of the Ancient Composition
of Two pounds five Shillings Sterling paid by Hezekiah Pigg into the Treasury
of this Commonwealth there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto the
said Hezekiah Pigg a Certain Tract or parcel of Land Containing Four Hundred
and twenty five acres by Survey bearing date the third day of January one
Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty one lying and being in the County of Pittsylvania
on both sides of Puding Creek and Bounded as followeth to Wit Beginning
at Pointers in the said Piggs former line and thence new lines South Twenty
one degrees East Twenty two poles to a red oak South five and half degrees
East thirty two poles to a white oak and pointers in Isaac
Clements line and thence his lines East eighteen poles to pointers on
the said Creek and up the same as it meanders and across to a maple South
one hundred and forty poles Crossing a branch to a white oak and thence
new lines South Sixty six degrees East eighty poles to two white oaks East
one hundred and twenty poles to a spanish oak North fifty degrees East one
hundred poles to a white oak North forty six poles to a large poplar on
a branch of pole cat Creek North twenty one degrees West Twenty poles to
a white oak North thirty degrees East forty Poles to a white oak North fifty
degrees East fifty four poles to a white oak North nineteen degrees East
ten poles to a Corner white oak in the said Piggs former line and thence
the same South Eighty four degrees West one hundred and Eighty poles to
pointers North eighty four degrees West Ninety six poles to a white oak
North twenty two degrees West Ninety poles to a white oak South Seventy
five degrees West Sixty eight poles Crossing the Creek to the Beginning
with its appurtenances To have and to hold the said Tract or parcel of Land
of Land with its appurtenances to the said Hezekiah Pigg and his Heirs forever
In Witness whereof the said Benjamin Harrison Esquire Governour 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 Eighteenth day of March
in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty four and of
the Commonwealth the Eighth
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