VIRGINIA GRANT:  Blackwell, 1790, Fayette
Date:	2/25/00 4:09:20 PM 
From:	MartinaCarpenter@webbworks.com (Martina Carpenter)

Virginia Grants
James Blackwell
Fayette County, KY
Book 11, Pages 516 - 517
FHC #02728 15

Beverley Randolph Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all to
whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by virtue & in
consideration of a Preemption Warrant No 2620 Issued the 31st day of August
1784 there is Granted by the said Commonwealth unto James Blackwell a
certain tract or parcel of land containing one thousand acres by Survey
bearing date the 25th day of September 1788 lying and being in the County of
Fayette on Cedar Creek and bounded as followeth To wit Beginning at an ash
and Elm on the North bank of Cedar Creek one hundred poles below Joseph
Blackwells Improvement, thence South four hundred poles crossing the Creek
to a large poplar Sugar tree and dogwood, thence East four hundred poles
crossing the South fork of Cedar Creek at two hundred and forty poles to
four hickories and two Sugar tree saplings thence North four hundred poles
to a poplar and white Walnut on the South bank of a large Branch, thence
West four hundred poles crossing the North fork of Cedar Creek to the
Beginning with its appurtenances To have and to hold the said tract or
parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said James Blackwell 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
third day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
ninety & of the Commonwealth the fifteenth.

Beverley Randolph



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