Franklin County GaArchives Deed.....Fry, Benjamin - Georgia, State Of November 24, 1786 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Beth Collins http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002523 January 4, 2009, 4:28 pm Written: November 24, 1786 Recorded: November 25, 1786 Georgia Headright and Colonial Land Grants LLL, p. 207 STATE OF GEORGIA.. By the Honorable Edward Telfair Esquire, Captain General, Governor and Commander in chief in and over the said State. To all to whom these Presents shall come, GREETING: KNOW YE, That in Pursuance of the Act for opening the Land Office and by virtue of the Powers in me vested, I HAVE, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Honorable the Executive Council, given and granted, and by these Presents, in the Name and Behalf of the said State, DO give and grant unto Benjamin Fry his Heirs and Assigns forever, ALL that Tract or Parcel of Land, containing five hundred Acres, situate, lying, and being in the county of Franklin in the said State, and butting and bounding Northwestwardly and Southeastwardly Surveyed Land, and on all other sides by Vacant Land, having such Shape, Form, and Marks, as appear by a Plat of the same hereunto annexed; together with all and singular the Rights, Members, and appurtenances thereof, whatsoever, in the said Tract or Parcel of Land belonging, or in any wise appertaining; and also all the Estate, Right, title, Interest, Claim and demand; of the State aforesaid, of, in, to, or out of the same: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD THE SAID Tract or Parcel of Land; and all and singular the Premises aforesaid, with their and every of their Rights, Members, and appurtenances, unto the said Benjamin Fry his Heirs and Assigns, to his and their own proper Use and Behoof forever, in Fee-Simple. GIVEN under my Hand in Council, and the Great Seal of the said State, this Twenty fourth Day of November in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Six and in the November Year of American Independence Signed by His Honor the Governor in Council the 24th Day of Nov 1786 J Meriweth C. C. Edwd. Telfair Registered 25 Novr. 1786 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/franklin/deeds/georgia162ndd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb