Richmond Co. GA - Land Grant to Alexander Berryhill

Submitted by David Morgan dmorgan@efn.org

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Georgia	By the Court of Justice of the County of 		Richmond
		To John Walton County Surveyor for said 		County

You are hereby Authorized and required to admeasure and lay out or cause to be 
admeasured and laid out unto ALEXANDER BERRYHILLa tract of land which shall 
contain two hundred & fifty acres in the said County of Richmond Joining lands 
of Thos Walker (on FAMILY HEAD RIGHTS) taking special caare that the same has 
not heretofore been laid out unto any other person or persons, and you hereby 
also directed and required and required to record the plat of the same in the 
Surveyor General within the term of Six months from this date. Given under my 
hand as Senior Justice of the said Court this 2'd day of Apl. 1787.
Test. Dan'l Elam A cc                 Charles Crawford  S. J.


This land was surveyed 7 April 1787. Polly Bridges Creek separated this land 
surveyed for Alexander Berryhill, from land of Alexander Berryhills other land 
on the Richmond County side of McBeans Creek. Andrew Berryhill had land next to 
Alexander's land the other side of McBeans Creek. Across the Creek was Burke 
County.

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This is an unpublished manuscript done by Thelma Nolen Cornfeld before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  dmorgan@efn.org