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George the third
& c. To all & c. Know ye that for divers good Causes & Considerations
but more especially for and in consideration of the Sum of Twenty Shillings
of good and lawful Money for our use paid to our Receiver General of our
Revenues in this our Colony and Dominion of Virginia We have given granted
and Confirmed and by these presents for us our heirs and Successors Do give
grant and Confirm unto Thomas Dillard Junr. and Isaac
Clements one certain Tract or parcel of Land containing one hundred
and eighty one Acres lying and being in the County of Pittsylvania on both
sides of Sycamore Creek and bounded as followeth, to wit, beginning at a
white oak in William Mobberleys Line and thence new Lines South seventy
eight degrees West sixty eight poles crossing a branch to a white oak South
twelve degrees West one hundred and twenty two poles to a white oak North
seventy four degrees West twenty four poles to a pine South twenty six Degrees
West fifty four poles crossing a branch to a pine South fifty three Degrees
West forty nine poles to a white oak on the aforesaid Creek North sixty
four Degrees East forty poles to a white oak South twenty eight Degrees
East twenty eight poles to a pine North eighty four Degrees East forty poles
to Pointers North forty two degrees East one hundred and forty poles crossing
a branch to a pine North twenty two degrees West ninety poles to a white
oak corner on the said Mobberley's Line and thence on the same crossing
the said Creek North sixty one degrees West fifty four poles to the Beginning
With all & c. To have hold & c. To be held & c. Yielding and
paying & c. Provided & c. In Witness & c. Witness our trusty
and welbeloved John Earl of Dunmore our Lieutenant and Governor General
of our said Colony and Dominion at Williamsburg under the Seal of our said
Colony the fifteenth day of June one thousand seven hundred and seventy
three in the Thirteenth Year of our Reign.
[Note: Pittsylvania County, VA,
Deed Book 5, pages 10-12 records that Thomas DILLARD Jr. and Isaac
CLEMENTS subsequently sold the land they acquired by the above patent
to John ROBERSON on 27 August 1778.]
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