Richard Taylor - 1788 Land Grant - Frederick County, Virginia *********************************************************** Submitted by: Clara Lawver Date: February 2008 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Please note, transcription is wide because line breaks are same as original document. Images of the original document available at the archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/frederick/land/60orig.jpg http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/frederick/land/61orig.jpg 60 Richd. Taylor Edmund Randolph Esquire Governor of the 221 Acres Commonwealth of Virginia To all To whom these presents shall Frederick Coty. come Greeting. Know ye that by Virture of a Warrant Issued from Examined. the late Lord proprietors office Of the Northern Neck and in Consideration of the ancient Composition of one pound five shillings sterling paid by Richard TAYLOR into the Treasury of this Commonwealth. There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto the Said Richard TAYLOR assignee of Richard CAHOON a ~~~ certain tract or parcel of Land Containing Two hundred and twenty one acres by Survey bearing date the Twelfth day of January One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Seven lying and being in the County of Frederick joining the Land of Harrison TAYLOR which he purchased of Joseph WILKINSON on Back Creek & Bounded as followeth to wit: Beginning at a pile of Stones & corner to the said Land of Harrison TAYLOR and also the land of Robert LOCKHART and running thence with LOCKHARTS line north Seventy six degrees. West Seventy six poles to a white oak another corner to said LOCKHART thence leaving LOCKHARTS line and running South eleven and a half degrees west thirty Seven poles to a small Walnut and hickory on the side of a hill in the line of the Land of Thomas @ MARPOOL thence with his line South thirty two and a half degrees East Sixty eight poles to between a Marked spanish oak and red oak thence Continued with said MARPOOL South fifty five and a half degrees west one hundred and forty three poles to a large red oak near a branch thence South ninety one and a half poles to a pine thence South Sixty five degrees East ninety Six poles to a large Chesnut oak on the North West side of the north mountain thence along same Mountain North thirty five and a half degrees East Two hundred and Eighty five poles to a pile of Stones near a marked wh And Two Chesnut oaks on the line of the said Harrison TAY thence... 61 thence with his line North seventy six and a quarter degrees west One hundred poles Crossing a branch to his corner white-oak thence north thirteen degrees East thirty two poles to the Beginning with its Appurtenances. To have and To hold the Said Land or parcel of Land with its Appurtenances to the Said Richard TAYLOR and his Heirs for- ever In Witness where of the Said Edmund RANDOLPH, Esquire Gover- nor 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 Tenth day of October in the year of Our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty eight and of the Commonwealth the Thirteenth Edmund Randolph