Essex-Pittsylvania County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Deed.....Dunn, Waters - Grant, Land August 1, 1772 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bob Ellis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004075 and Linda Ellis April 14, 2009, 10:25 am Written: August 1, 1772 Waters Dunn Land Grant 1772 George the third To all &c know Ye that for diverse good causes & considerations but more especially for & in consideration of the sum of ten shillings of good & 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 & by these presents for us our heirs & successors Do give grant & confirm unto Waters Dunn one certain tract or parcel of land containing eighty acres lying & being in the county of Pittsylvania on the south side of Smiths River and bounded as followeth, to wit, beginning at a hickory on the said river thence now Lines south eighty five degrees west one hundred & fifty eight poles to a red oak North seventy five degrees west twenty one poles to a red oak North seventy four degrees West fifty poles to a Pine South thirty two degrees West sixty two poles to a sorrel(?) tree south fifty five degrees west forty two poles to a red oak on the said river & thence up river as it meanders to the first station With all &c To Have hold &c or to be held &c yielding & paying provided &c In witness &c our trusted & well loved John Earl of Dunmore our Lieutenant Governor General of our said colony & Dominion at Williamsburg under the seal of our said colony the first day of August one thousand seven hundred & seventy two in the twelfth year of our reign. Dunmore Va. Land Patents #40 page 891 1771-1772 Transcribed by Bob & Linda Ellis File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/essex/deeds/grant111gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb