George Wigil land grant, 8 March 1790, 83 acres Augusta Co., Virginia, Land Office Grants No. 21, 1789 - 1790, p. 672 - 674 (Reel 87), Virginia State Land Office, Library of Virginia Digital Collections, Richmond, Virginia.
Beverley 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 part of a Land Office
Treasury Warrant Number twenty two thousand and thirty issued the twenty
fourth day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty three there
is granted by the said Commonwealth unto George Wigil assignee of John
Gardner a certain tract of land containing eighty three acres by survey
bearing date the twenty fourth day of April one thousand seven hundred and
eighty nine lying and being in the county of Augusta on the north east
side of his other land as bounded as followeth (to wit)
Beginning at white oak said Wigil's corner and with his line north
sixty six degrees west fifty one poles to a pine; north twenty(?) degrees
east eighty poles to a pine; north sixty five degrees west one hundred and
thirty four poles to a white oak and some [s]hrubs on his line and corner
to a survey of John Hogshead and with his line north twelve degrees east
ninety poles to three black oaks Hogshead's corner; north forty seven
degrees [?] poles to a locust and black oak; north seventy five degrees
east forty poles to a white oak and black oak; south five degrees west
forty two poles to a white oak George Phyfer's corner and with his line
south twenty five degrees east seventy six poles to two pines Phyfer's
corner; south seventy degrees east forty one poles to a pine; south ninety
six poles to a pine; south thirty two degrees west twenty five poles to a
white oak; south fifteen degrees east thirty eight poles to a white oak
and black oak saplings; south forty one degrees east thirty 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 George Wigil and his
heirs forever.
In witness whereof the said Beverley 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 eighth day
of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety
and of the Commonwealth the fourteenth. Beverley Randolph.