Nelson County, KY - Deeds:  Lee, Josiah, 1788
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Virginia Grant
Josiah Lee
Nelson County, KY
Book 9
Page 643
FHC #0272814

Edmund Randolph Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to all to
whom these Presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by Virtue and in
consideration of part of a Land office Treasury warrant No 11694 Issued the
17th day of April 1782 There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Josiah
Lee a certain tract or parcel of Land Containing one hundred acres by survey
bearing date the 26th day of December 1785 lying and being in the County of
Nelson on _____ _____ South _____ of the _____ fork and bounded as
followeth, to wit Beginning at two large poplars and blue ash at the foot of
the hills on the lower side of bear run about three hundred and eighty poles
above the mouth running thence South seventy degrees East one hundred and
twenty seven poles to a white oak white ash and poplar on the point of a
ridge Crossing bear run at twenty poles Thence North twenty degrees East one
hundred and twenty seven poles to a white oak and sugar tree thence North
seventy degrees West one hundred and twenty seven poles to a black oak white
oak and Spanish oak on the lower bank of Bear run thence South twenty
degrees West one hundred and twenty seven poles to the Beginning with its
appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of Land with its
appurtenances to the said Josiah Lee and his Heirs forever.  In witness
whereof the said Edmund 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 May in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight and of the
Commonwealth the twelfth.

     Edm Randolph
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