Land Grant to Peter Bays - 1783
170 Acres in Washington County, Virginia
Virginia Grants 16, p. 515
Warrant Dated 21 Mar 1783, Survey dated 24 Mar 1786, Recorded 14 Apr 1788
Note: This is in present day Russell Co.
Edmund 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 a Land Office Treasury
Warrant number Sixteen thousand one hundred and fifty two Issued the twenty
first day of March one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty three there is
granted by the Said Commonwealth unto Peter Bays assignee of Jacob Crabtree
a Certain Tract or parcel of Land Containing one hundred and Seventy Acres
by Survey bearing Date, the Twenty fourth day of March One thousand seven
hundred and Eighty Six lying and being in The County of Washington on the
Waters of Clinch River, and on the North Side of McClanahans Elk Garden
Tract and bounded as followeth To Wit: Beginning at two white oaks on the
South Side of Priests Mountain Thence South Sixteen degrees West Seventy
nine poles to two Sugartrees & Buckeye on said McClanahans line North Sixty
three degrees east one hundred and twenty two poles to a Buckeye Ash and
large Walnut South fifty nine degrees East twenty eight poles to two
Sugartrees and Chestnut tree on the End of a ridge North forty five degrees
East one hundred and Sixty four poles leaving Said Said line to two
dogwoods, and a red oak on the Top of a ridge North thirty six degrees East
one hundred and Eight poles to two red oaks by a Sink hole North twenty six
degrees West fifty four poles to two Sugartrees and a Chestnut at the foot
of Said mountain thence South fifty one and a half degrees West three
hundred and forty three poles to the Beginning, With the Appurtenances To
have and To hold, the Said Tract or parcel of Land with its Appurtenances
to the said Peter Bays and his Heirs forever. In witness Where of the Said
Edmund 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 fourteenth day of April in the Year of our
Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Eight and of the Commonwealth
the Twelfth.
Edmund Randolph
This file contributed by: David L. Hanna
visitor since June 20, 1998
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