Joseph Preas Land Grant 1799: Bedford Co., VA

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Land Office Patents and Grants
                         Land Grant for
                          JOSEPH PREAS
                        20 December 1799

 Joseph Preas - 95 Acres - Bedford - Examined

James Monroe Esquire Governor of the commonwealth of Virginia to
all to whom those presents should come Greeting, know ye that by
virtue of a Land office Treasury warrant number nineteen thousand
nine hundred and seven issued the sixteenth day of October one 
thousand seven hundred and eighty three, there is granted by the
said Commonwealth unto Joseph Preas assignee of George (?Rusher)
a section tract or Parcel of land containing ninety five acres by 
survey bearing date the ninth day of April one thousand Seven 
Hundred and Ninety four lying and being in the county of Bedford
on the North east side of Weavers Knob and bounded as follweth to
(?....?), beginning at a location in Talbots line thence new lines 
north forty four degrees west sixty poles to a chesnut oak north
thirty six degrees, east forty poles to a small maple near a 
spring, north thirty four degrees east one hundred and four poles 
to chesnut oak, north twenty three degrees east thirty two poles
to a chestnut oak near a branch up the same north seventy degrees
west twenty poles to a Hickory. West sixty eight poles to his own 
corner hickory, thence along his own pines, south forty four 
degrees west fifty eight poles to a hickory, south thirteen 
degrees west, thirty two poles to a large chesnut, south forty six 
poles to a hickory, south twenty eight degrees east, forty six 
poles to a chesnut oak in Talbots line, and then along his line 
south seventy four degrees east sixty two poles to the beginning, 
with its appurtanances to have and to hold the said tract and 
parcel of land with its appurtanances to the said Joseph Preas, 
and his heirs forever.  In witness where of the said James Monroe 
Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia both hereunto set 
his hand and caused the lesser seal of the said commonwealth to be 
affixed at Richmond on the twentieth day of December, in the year 
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine and of the 
commonwealth of the twenty fourth.
                           JAMES MONROE

Preas, Joseph    20 Dec 1799
Bedford County
95a. On the north east side of Weavers Knob
Grants 44, 1799-1800. p. 21