Patents: Nathaniel THACKER, grant, 1802, Albemarle Co., VA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Matt Harris, Zoobug64@aol.com (Nov 2007) [brackets, line breaks mine] *********************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Albemarle County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Deeds and Land Records Nathaniel Thacker, 72-acre grant, 22 Mar 1802 [p.] 500 [... grant to Robert PRESTON] [margin notes] Nath.l Thacker 72 Acres Albemarle X.d and del.d Jesse Thacker 30 Aug 1802 James Monroe Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to all to whom these presents shall Come greeting, Know Ye, that by virtue of a land office treasury Warrant Number Eighteen thousand and Sixty three issued the twenty fourth day of July One thousand seven hundred and eighty three, There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Nathaniel Thacker a certain tract or parcel of land Containing Seventy two Acres, by Survey bearing date the twenty eighth day of March Eighteen hundred, lying and being in the County of Albemarle on the head waters of Moores Creek and bounded as followeth, to Wit, Beginning at [page break] [p.] 501 pointers Corner to Tarlton Woodson in Benjamin Thackers (deceased) line on Thackers line North forty four degrees East Six poles to pointers South sixty nine degrees East thirty four poles to pointers South fifty nine degrees East one hundred and Six poles to pointers in his own line and on same North twenty One degrees East thirty six poles to a red oak Saplin' South sixty eight degrees East two and one quarter poles to a Red oak Corner to Philip Gooch on his line North fourteen degrees East twenty seven poles to a red oak Sapling Corner to Matthew Gooch thence on his lines North sixty five degrees West forty seven poles to pointers South fourteen degrees East three poles to a chesnut oak on a rock North Seventy two degrees and a half West twenty four poles to a Chesnut North forty one degrees West forty eight poles to a Chesnut oak North fifty six degrees East Six and a half poles to a chesnut oak Corner to Robert Layne then on his lines North Seventy six degrees West thirty five poles to pointers North eight degrees East fifteen poles to a hickory sapling Corner to Nancy Bailey then on her lines South Sixty degrees West Seventy eight poles to pointers, South twenty five degrees West twenty poles to pointers, Corner to Tarlton Woodson then on his line South Sixty four degrees East Sixty four 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 Nathaniel Thacker and his heirs forever, In Witness whereof the said James Monroe 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 second day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and two and of the ~ Commonwealth the twenty sixth. James Monroe [document end] Virginia State Land Office, Grants No. 48, 1801-02, pp. 500-01 The Library of Virginia, Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants database, images 114_0521.tif & 114_0522.tif [LVA, Colonial Land Office Microfilm Reel 114] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/albemarle/deeds/48gb500.txt [BAILEY, GOOCH, THACKER, WOODSON]