Patents: Pettiss THACKER, 1768, Amherst Co., VA 

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Matt Harris, Zoobug64@aol.com (Nov 2007) [brackets, line breaks mine] 

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Amherst County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Deeds and Land Records 
     Pettiss Thacker, 210-acre patent, 20 Jul 1768 

[p.] 338) 

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[margin notes] Pettiss Thacker_} 
                  210 Acres    } 
                  Form page 1  } 

George the Third &c.  To all &c.  Know ye that for divers good causes and 
considerations but more especially for and in consideration of the sum of 
Twenty five shillings of good and Lawful money for our use paid to our 
Receiver General of our Revenues in this our Colony & Dominion of Virginia 
We have given granted and confirmed and by these presents for us our heirs and 
Sucessors D [sic] give grant and confirm unto Pettiss Thacker one certain 
Tract or parcel of Land containing two hundred and ten Acres lying and being 
in the County of Amherst on the North side and joining Harris's Creek & 
bounded as followeth, to wit, Beginning at pointers to Charles Lynch & Col.o 
Carrington and with Lynch's lines South thirty three degrees West fifty two 
poles to a white oak 
South two degrees West one hundred and twelve poles to a red oak and pointers 
thence on new Lines North sixty five degrees West, seventy eight poles to a 
red oak 
South seventy two degrees West twenty poles to a large white oak and pointers 
on the North side of Harris's Creek corner to Christopher Lynch 
thence up the same according to its meanders making in a right line one 
hundred poles to a white oak 
thence on new Lines North five degrees East ninety two poles to pointers 
North thirty six degrees East at forty two poles a Branch at one hundred and 
sixteen poles another one hundred and twenty eight poles to pointers in Col.o 
Carringtons Line and with it South forty seven 
                                             degrees [page break] 


[p.] 339) 

degrees East one hundred and eighht [sic] poles to the first station.  ~ 
With all &c. To have hold &c. To be held &c Yielding and Paying &c. Provided 
&c. In Witness &c. Witness our Trusty & welbeloved John Blair esquire 
President of our Council and Commander in Chief of our said Colony and 
Dominion at Williamsburg under the Seal of our said Colony the twentieth day 
of July one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight In the eighth year of our 
Reign. 
Exam.d                                            John Blair. 


Virginia State Land Office, Patent Book 37 (1767-1768), p. 338 
The Library of Virginia, Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants database, 
     images 037_0351.tif & 037_0352.tif 
[LVA, Colonial Land Office Microfilm Reel 37] 

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/amherst/deeds/37pb338.txt

[CARRINGTON, LYNCH, THACKER]