Jefferson/Burke Cos. GA - Land grant to John Berryhill, 1789

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John Berryhill had land and lived in Burke County, Georgia -- the part that 
later became Jefferson County. He received the following Land Grant:


STATE OF GEORGIA
By the Honorable GEORGE WALTON Esquire,
Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief in and
over the said State

To all to whom these Presents shall come, GREETINGS:

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 JOHN BERRYHILL, his 
Heirs and Assigns forever, ALL that Tract or Parcel of Land, containing FOUR 
HUNDRED Acres, situate, lying, and being in the County of BURKE in the said 
State, and butting and bounding NORTH WESTWARDLY BY THE COUNTY LINE AND ON THE 
OTHER SIDES BY VACANT LANDS ---
	having such Shape, Form, Marks as appear by a Plat of the same hereunto 
annexed; together with all and singular the Rights, Members, and Appurtenances 
thereof, Whatsoever, to 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 JOHN BERRYHILL his Heirs and Assigns to HIS and their own proper 
Use and Behoof, in FEE SIMPLE.

			GEVEN under my Hand in Council, and the
 			Great Seal of the said State, this EIGHTH
 			Day of AUGUST in the Year of our Lord, One
			Thousand Seven Hundred and EIGHTY NINE and
			in the FOURTEENTH Year of American Independence.

Signed by his Honor the Governor in Council the 8th Day of Augt. 1789
	J. Meriwether, C.C.
Registered the 17th August 1789

[Along the side of this Grant was signed "GEO (LS) WALTON" and a notation on the 
back of the grant was "The Warrant for this grant was issued the 6th of March 
1787 and was surveyed the 7th of March 1787 by Isaac Perry."]

The Story of John Berryhill and Elizabeth Derrisaw and Their Descendants

This is an unpublished manuscript done by Thelma Nolen Cornfeld before
her death in 1996. Her daughter Barbara gave me permission to put her
research online.

David Morgan