Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Britt, Joseph, 1796 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Land Records Joseph BRITT, grant, 600 acres, 10 Mar 1796 [margin note] Joseph Britt 600 Acres Isle of Wight Exd. James Wood Esquire Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virgi- nia To all To whom these Presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by Virtue of Land Office Treasury Warrants, Numbers twenty thousand eight hundred and eighty two, twenty thousand eight hundred and eighty one nine hundred and forty eight, and nine hundred and forty seven, there is Granted by the said Commonwealth unto Joseph Britt a certain Tract or parcel of Land containing six hundred Acres, by Survey bearing date the thirtieth day of Novem ber one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, lying and being in the County of Isle of Wight and bounded as followeth to wit Beginning at a white oak standing near a Swamp called the quarter Swamp running South fifty degrees West forty poles to a pine South twenty four poles to an oak South fifteen degrees West eighty poles to a pine, South fifty seven degrees West seventy seven poles to a pine, North forty degrees West four hundred and sixty poles to a Gum a corner standing in a swamp thence East four hundred and fifty poles to a hickory Jesse Thomas's corner, thence along a line of marked trees Southwardly to the beginning, With its Appurtenances to have and to hold the said Tract or parcel of Land With its Appurtenances to the said Joseph [page break] [p.] 491 Joseph Britt and his Heirs forever In Witness whereof the said James Wood Esquire Lieutenant 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 tenth day of March in the Year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety six and of the Commonwealth the twentieth James Wood Virginia State Land Office Grants No. 33 (1795-96), pp. 490-91 The Library of Virginia (LVA), Richmond, VA, Land Office Microfilm Reel 99 images online at the LVA's Virginia Memory website (Digital Collections): http://www.virginiamemory.com/ Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Matt Harris, zoobug64@aol.com [brackets & line breaks mine] [BRITT, THOMAS] file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/deeds/33gb490.txt