Brunswick County, VA – Land Grant to Drury Stith, 1759

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George the Second, to all and know ye that for diverse good causes and considerations 
but more especially for and in consideration of the sum of three pounds of good and 
lawful money for _____ is paid our Receiver General of our ______ in this our Colony 
and Dominion of Virginia We have given granted and confirmed by those presents for us 
our heirs and successors do give grant and confirm unto DRURY STITH one certain tract 
or parcel of land containing five hundred and eighty one acres lying and being in the 
county of Brunswick and bounded as followeth to wit Beginning at Briggs Corner ____ 
then a North one hundred and fifty poles to a pine thence north sixty one degrees ____ 
and hundred and sixty two poles to a Spanish oak ____ Branch thence down the said 
branch to Robert Brigg's line thence along his line North seventy degrees _ast sixty poles 
to his corner white oak thence north fifty six degrees East one hundred and sixteen poles 
to a Red oak thence ___ South five degrees East one hundred and forty poles to D____s 
line thence along his line South eighty one degrees west four poles to his corner __ ___ 
Tack then South thirty two degrees West seventy six poles to his corner pine(?) thence 
South fifty two degrees West one hundred and twenty eight poles to his corner white oak 
thence South nineteen degrees West eight poles to Briggs cornered(?) oak thence along 
his line West twenty poles to his corner hicory thence north twenty nine degrees West 
sixty poles to his corner red oak thence north seventy one degrees West seventy eight 
poles to his corner Red oak on a road thence south eighty four degrees West one hundred 
and twenty eight poles to the first Station With all __ to have not ye To be held ye 
yielding and paying ye provided in witness __ witness our Trusty and well beloved 
Francis Fauquier Esq our Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of our said 
Colony and Dominion at Williamsburgh under the seal of our said Colony the tenth day 
of August one thousand and seven hundred and fifty nine In the thirty third year of our 
Reign. 

                                                                                             Fran. Fauquier