VIRGINIA GRANT:  Lee, 1790, Fayette
Date:	2/25/00 3:48:40 PM 
Submitted by:	MartinaCarpenter@webbworks.com (Martina Carpenter)

Virginia Grants
Hancock Lee
Fayette County, KY
Book 15, Pages 274 - 275
FHC #0272817


Beverly Randolph Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all to
whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by virtue of a 
Certificate in Right of Settlement given by the Commissioners for adjusting
the Titles to unpatented Lands in the District of Kentucky and in
Consideration of the ancient Composition of two pounds sterling paid by
Hancock Lee into the Treasury of the Comnwealth there is Granted by the said
Comwealth unto the said Hancock Lee Heir at Law to Willis Lee a certain
tract or parcel of Land containing four hundred acres by Survey bearing date
the 4th day of May 1789 lying and being in the County of Fayette on the
Waters of South Elkhorn and bounded as followeth To wit Beginning a two
small hickories and a white thorn on a Ridge near Steels Run Running thence
South seventy degrees East two hundred and fifty three poles crossing Steels
Run to a Stake thence North twenty degrees East two hundred and fifty three
poles to a Stake thence North seventy degrees West Two hundred and fifty
three poles to a red Elm and two Sugar trees on a line of Edmund Taylor's
Military Survey, thence with Taylors line South twenty degrees West two
hundred and fifty the(?) poles Crossing Steels Run to the Beginning with its
appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of Land with its
Appurtenances to the said Hancock Lee and his Heirs forever In Witness
whereof the said Beverley Randolph Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of
Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser Seal of the said
Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the twenty fifth day of May in the
Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Ninety, and of the
Commonwealth the fourteenth.

     Beverly Randolph

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