Wilkes County GaArchives Deed.....Davenport, William - Georgia, State Of April 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 September 11, 2005, 11:19 am Written: April 24, 1786 Recorded: May 5, 1786 Georgia Land Grant Register, Book III, page 770 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 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 William Davenport his Heirs and Assigns forever, ALL that Tract or Parcel of Land, containing Two hundred Acres, situate, lying, and being, in the County of Wilkes in the said State, and butting and bounding Northeastwardly by William Stokes’s Land, Southeastwardly by Norris’s land, and on all other Sides by Vacant 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 Wm Davenport 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 April 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 24th Day of April 1786 Edwd Telfair G Handley C. C. Registered the 5th day of May 1786 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/wilkes/deeds/georgia452dd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb