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Land Office Grant to John Webster GILBERT,
20 Jul 1780
Virginia Land Office Grants E, 1775-1776, 1780-1781, pp. 88-89 Transcript by Marna L. Clemons, 30 October 2001 |
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Thomas Jefferson
Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to all whom these presents
shall come greeting Know ye that in consideration of the Ancient Composition
of Forty Shillings Sterling paid into the Treasury of this Commonwealth
by John Webster Gilbert there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto the
Said John Webster Gilbert a certain Tract or parcel of Land Containing Three
Hundred and Sixty Acres by Survey bearing date the fifteenth day of March
One Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Lying and being in the County of
Bedford on West Branches of Seneca Creek and Bounded as followeth, to Wit,
Beginning at his own Corner Red Oak thence along his Lines North Eighty
two degrees West fifty Six poles to his Corner black Jack South forty five
degrees West Ninety Six poles to his Corner Shrub white oak South forty
two degrees East One hundred and twenty poles to his corner white oak thence
off South five degrees West one hundred and twenty poles to a Red Oak on
his own Line thence along his Line South sixty three Degrees West forty
poles to a pine thence off North Eighty degrees West Ninety six poles to
a Spanish Oak North thirty two degrees West fourteen poles to Gordons Corner
Red Oak thence along his Line North Eighteen degrees West One hundred and
sixty two poles to a Red Oak thence off North thirty five degrees East fifty
eight poles to a Shrub white oak North ten Degrees West Eighty six poles
to a pine North sixty six degrees East One hundred and Eighty four poles
to a black Jack South Sixty four degrees East Ninety four poles to pointers
on his own Line and thence along his own Line South Twenty two degrees West
Sixty poles to the first Station with its Appurtenances to have and to hold
the said Tract of parcel of Land with its appurtenances unto the said John
Webster Gilbert and his heirs forever In witness whereof the said Thomas
Jefferson Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto
set his hand and Caused the seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed
at Richmond on the twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Eighty and of the Commonwealth the fifth
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