Patents: John Alloway STRANGE, grant, 1787, Fluvanna Co., VA 

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Matt Harris, Zoobug64@aol.com (Nov 2007) [brackets, line breaks mine] 

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Fluvanna County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Deeds and Land Records 
     John Alloway Strange, 245-acre patent, 10 Sep 1787 

[p.] 614 

[margin notes] John A. Strange 
                        223 Acres 
               Fluvanna County ~ 
                   Ex'd 

Beverley Randolph  Esquire Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 
to all to whom these presents shall come greeting 
Know ye, that by virtue and in Consideration of an Exchanged Land Office 
Treasury Warrant Number twenty nine Issued the nineteenth day of November 
one Thousand seven hundred and eighty three, 
There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto John Alloway Strange Assignee 
of John Thompson Assignee of Patrick Napier Assignee of Thomas Napier who was 
Assignee of William Henry a certain Tract or parcel of Land, containing two 
hundred and forty five Acres by Survey  bearing date the fourteenth day of 
June one Thousand seven hundred and eighty six lying & being in the County of 
Fluvanna and bounded as followeth, To Wit, 
Beginning at a corner  pine Stump of John A Stranges 
thence with his line South fifty one degrees  East one hundred and ninety six 
Poles crossing a branch - to a white oak in Nathaniel Thackers line 
thence with his line North forty five degrees  East one hundred and eighty 
eight poles crossing a branch several times to a pine in James Crewsons line 
thence with his line North thirty four and a half degrees West one hundred and 
seventy six poles crossing a branch Several times to a small gum in William 
Whites line 
thence with his line South fifty one degrees West two hundred and forty four 
poles crossing two branches to the beginning 
With its appurtenances to the said John Alloway Strange & his heirs forever. 
In Witness whereof the said  Beverley  Randolph Esquire Lieutenant Governor of 
the Commonwealth of Virginia  hath hereunto set his hand & caused the lesser 
Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed  at Richmond on the Tenth day of 
September one Thousand Seven hundred and eighty seven & of the Commonwealth 
the Twelfth. 
                                                  B. Randolph 
[document & page end] 

Virginia State Land Office, Grants No. 10, 1787, p. 614 
The Library of Virginia, Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants database, 
     image 076_00631.tif 
[LVA, Colonial Land Office Microfilm Reel 76] 

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/fluvanna/deeds/10gb614.txt

[Nathaniel THACKER was given 100 acres by his father, Benjamin {Sr}, 
 6 Mar 1783 (Fluvanna DB1:144); both eventually moved to Albemarle Co. 
 Benjamin THACKER and John Alloway STRANGE both appear in Fluvanna Court, 
 6 Nov 1777 and 5 Feb 1778 (Court Order Book).
 They seem to have lived in the vicinity of Wilmington.] 

[CREWSON, HENRY, NAPIER, STRANGE, THACKER, THOMPSON, WHITE]