Wilkes-Oglethorpe-Spalding County GaArchives Deed.....Ellis, William - Georgia, State Of 1788 ************************************************ 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: Bob & Linda Ellis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004075 August 26, 2006, 11:37 am Written: 1788 STATE OF GEORGIA By the Honorable George Handley 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, give and grant, and by these presents, in the Name and Behalf of the said, DO give and Grant unto William Ellis Heirs and Assigns forever, ALL that Tract or Parcel of Land, containing Thirty Acres, situate, lying, and being, in the County of Wilkes in the said State, and butting and bounding North East by Guins North West by Grahams South East by Ellis’s and South West by Harris’s Land having such Shape, Form, and Marks, as appear by 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, Appurtenances unto the said William Ellis his Heirs and Assigns, to 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 Fifth Day of June in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Eight And in the Twelfth Year of American Independence. Signed by His Honor the Governor in Council the 25th Day of June 1788 I. Meriwether C. C. Registered the 30th day of June 1788. Georgia This is to certify that William Ellis fled from this County to Escape from the British & is Entitled to a bounty of two hundred & fifty acres of land as a Refugee agreeable to an Law provided for that purpose Given under my (hand) this 16th day of June 1784 Elijah Clark Col. By his order M Williamson To the honorable president and members of Land Court now setting at agustia the petition of William Ellis prays that your Honorable lord grant him his bounty of Land in Washington County as agreeable to the within Certificate and your petitioner will Ever pray William Ellis Paid Petn paid Wm Ellis No 1126 Additional Comments: William Ellis Sr. Came to Ga. From Rowan County N.C. He was the son of John Ellis File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/wilkes/deeds/georgia635gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb