Daniel Chandler Land Grant, 1779

Thomas Jefferson Esq. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all to 
whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that in consideration of the
ancient composition of Forty Shillings sterling paid by Daniel Candler into 
the Treasury of this Commonwealth there is Granted by the said Commonwealth 
unto the said Daniel Candler Assignee of Archelaus Gilliam a Certain Tract 
or parcel of Land Containing (by Survey bearing the date the Nineteenth day 
of January one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Three) 370 acres lying and
being in the County of Bedford on both Sides of flat Creek and Possum Creek 
Including their Heads and Bounded as followeth To Wit Beginning at Stemmons 
corner white oak on Glady branch of flat Creek thence off North Two hundred 
and Six poles to a Spanish oak on the Brow of a hill on Possum Creek North 
Twenty five East crossing two Branches of Possum Creek Ninty poles to 
pointers North fifty five East crossing two Branches of Possum Creek one 
Hundred and sixteen poles to a pine South twenty West Eighty poles to a 
Black jack South forty five West Eighty poles to a Black jack South Twenty 
five West Sixty Six poles to Stemmons Corner white oak thence along his line
crossing flat Creek North fifty five West Sixty poles to the first Station 
with its Appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of Land 
with its Appurtenances to the said Daniel Candler and his Heirs forever In 
Witness whereof the said Thomas Jefferson Esq. Governor of the Commonwealth 
of Virginia hath hereunto Set his hand and Caused the Seal of the Said 
Commonwealth to be affixed at Williamsburg on the first Day of Dec in the 
Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy nine and of the 
Commonwealth the fourth

Thomas Jefferson [his squiggle]

(Submitter note: This Grant, often thought to be a posthumous document 
settling the estate of Daniel Candler, Sr (c1706-c1765), is instead, the 
Grant of Daniel Candler, grandson of Daniel, son of John Candler, Sr. This 
Daniel Candler appears on Montgomery County Maryland Tax records by 1783 and
is listed on the 1790 Federal Census.)

Submitted by Martha Forbes Marsh <emarsh@SPC.cc.tx.us>

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