Fincastle County, Virginia, Grant:  John Phipps and Thomas Young

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John Floyd Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia:
To ALL TO WHOM those Presents shall come, GREETING: KNOW YE, That is confor___
with a Survey, made on the seventeenth day of December 1774 and an order from
Harold Smith requesting a Grant to issue on a survey made for Edward King
there is granted by the said Commonwealth, unto John Phipps and Thomas Young
A certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing one hundred and two acres situate
in Fincastle County (now Grayson) on both sides of New river agreeable to an
order of council of the 16th December 1773 and being part of the Loyall/Sayall
Company's Grant Beginning at a white oak and hickory on the river bank by the
mouth of a small branch and running thrice N 33 W126 poles to a white oak by a
gully S 45 W 62 poles crossing For creek near the mouth and the view to four
walnuts on the bank and up the several courses 20C poles to _____ two black
walnuts, thnce leaving the River N50 E 71 poles to a white oak on the top of a
hill, N 60 E 21 poles to three hickories on a ridge by a path, thence N 75 E 144
poles crossing the River to the Beginning

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of Land, with its appurtenses, to
the said John Phipps and Thomas Young and their heirs forever,
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said John Floyd esqr. Governor of the Commonwealth
of Virginia, hath hereunto set his Hand, and caused the ____ Seal of the said
Commonwealth to be affixed, at Richmond, on the fifth day of March in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and of the Commonwealth
the 5.8 1 h(?)
John Floyd