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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.

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