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Land Office Grant to Hezekiah PIGG, 18 Mar 1784
Virginia Land Office Grants K, 1783-1784, pp. 500-502 Transcript by Marna L. Clemons, 30 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 one pound 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 Assignee of Jonas Lawson a Certain Tract or parcel of
Land containing Two Hundred and fifty 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 the Draughts of white oak and pole Cat
Creek and Bounded as followeth, to wit, Beginning at a white oak in John
Mays line and thence a new line North Seventeen and a half degrees East
one hundred and twelve poles to a red oak in Hezekiah Piggs line and thence
his lines East Twenty eight 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 thence a long John Hubbards line North Eighty
eight degrees East one hundred and Sixty two poles to a Gum on a branch
of Pole Cat Creek and up the same as it Meanders to a Corner white oak in
the said Lawsons former line opposite the Head of the said branch and thence
along his lines South Fifty four degrees West one hundred and Eight poles
to a white oak South fifteen degrees East Ninety two poles to a black Jack
South thirty three degrees West Twenty two poles to pointers in John Mays
line aforesaid and along the Same North Eighty and a half degrees West one
hundred and Ninety six poles to the Beginning with its appurtenances To
have and to hold the said Tract or parcel 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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