Wilkes County GaArchives Deed.....Humphrey Tompkins - State of Georgia February 22 1786
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Written: February 22 1786
Recorded: February 22 1786

Georgia Land Grant Register, Book III, page 471

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 presence 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 Humphrey Tompkins 
his Heirs and Assigns forever, ALL that Tract or Parcel of Land, containing one 
Thousand and fifty Acres, situate, lying, and being, in the County of Wilkes in 
the said State, and butting and bounding Southeastwardly by Jeremiah Cloud’s, 
Francis M.Clendon’s and Francis Baldwin’s Land, Northeastwardly by William 
Johnson’s and surveyed Land, Northwestwardly by John Freeman’s Land and on all 
other Sides by vacant Land 
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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, 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 Humphrey Tompkins 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 second Day of February in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand 
Seven Hundred and Eighty-Six and in the Tenth Year of American Independence.

Signed by His Honor the Governor in Council the 22nd Day of February 1786
 
G Handley C. C.
Registered the 22nd February 1786


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