Land Grant to John Vandike - 1794


50 Acres in Russell County, Virginia
Virginia Grants 42, p. 379
Warrant Dated 28 Nov 1794, Survey dated 14 Mar 1796, Recorded 25 Jun 1799

James Wood, Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to all to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know Ye that by virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant Number eight hundred and seventy one issued the twenty eight day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety four there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto John Vandike a certain tract or parcel of land containing fifty acres by Survey bearing date the fourteenth day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety six lying and being in the County of Russell on Indian Creek a branch of Clinch River and bounded as followeth to Wit:

Beginning at two white oaks near the top of a clift corner to the land of said Vandike and with a line thereof North thirty one degrees East two hundred and ninety poles to a sugar tree corner to said line South seventy five degrees West forty four poles to pointers South thirty seven degrees West tow hundred and forty eight poles to pointers South twenty two and a half degrees East thirty eight poles to the Beginning.

With its appurtenances to the said John Vandike and his heirs forever in Witness whereof the said James Wood, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hat hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the twenty fifth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine and of the Commonwealth the twenty third.

/s/ James Wood


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