John Clarke - 1810 Land Grant - Frederick County, Virginia
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John CLARKE               John TYLER, Esquire
3 acres 1 rood 11 poles   Governor of the Commonwealth of
Frederick                 Virginia, To all to whom these 
Exd    4      presents shall come Greeting: know ye, That by
              virtue of a Land Office Treasury warrant, number 4378
              issued the 9th of December, 1806; there I s granted by
              the said Commonwealth, unto John CLARKE, A certain
              Tract or parcel of Land, containing Three acres, one rood
              and eleven poles by survey bearing date the first of June
              eighteen hundred and nine, lying in the County of
              Frederick, adjoining and between his own land and
              the land mortgaged by James McDONALD to Josiah
              THOMPSON, on the drains of Opeckon creek and bounded
              as followeth, to wit: Beginning at a locust post,
              in CLARK'S line at the foot of a hill, near the
              lower end of a small meadow, thence with said line,
              south eighty five and a half degrees west, seventy five
              poles to a stake in the midst of pine bushes at a pit,
              occasioned by fallen trees, supposed to have been an original
              corner to CLARK'S land, thence with the same north four 
              degrees west, fourteen poles to a white oak stump
              corner to CLARK, MAUK, and the said mortgaged land, 
              thence with the latter north eighty four and a half
                                                             degrees

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degrees east, seventy seven poles to the beginning, with its
appurtenances, To have and to hold the said Tract
or parcel of Land with its appurtenances, to the said
John CLARKE, and his heirs for ever . In witness whereof 
the said John TYLER, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth
of Virginia, hath hereunto set his hand, and caused the 
lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at
Richmond, on the seventeenth day of October in the 
year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and ten, 
and of the Commonwealth the thirty-fifth.

Jno. Tyler