KING WILLIAM COUNTY, VA - DEEDS - Land Grant to Capt. Thomas Claiborne
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King William County
Written: September 5 1723
Recorded: September 5 1723

GEORGE the SECOND &c  TO ALL AND KNOW ye that for divers, good cause and 
consideration but more especially for and in consideration of the sum of forty 
pounds of good and lawful money for our use paid to our Receiver General of 
Revenues in this our Colony and Dominion of Virginia~
WE have given, granted and confirmed and by these presents for us our heirs and 
successors ~ DO give, grant and confirm unto Capt. Thomas Claiborne of King 
William County one certain tract or parcel of land containing ~ eighteen 
hundred acres, called and known by the name of  SWEET HALL~ lying and being on 
the north side of the Pamunkey River in St. John's Parish, in the said county  
~ eight hundred acres ~  part of his above eighteen hundred acres, is found to 
be  part of land within the bounds of a Deed from  Capt. William Claiborne ~ 
made to the said Capt. Thomas Claiborne the twelfth  day of March Seventeen 
Hundred and One ~ for one thousand  acres more or less ~ which is joined to be 
within the bounds of a Deed of Gift made by Coll. William Claiborne, Secretary 
of State, unto his son Thomas Claiborne ~ said father to the above named  
Thomas Claiborne  ~ June the twentieth , sixteen hundred and seventy three ~ 
for eleven hundred  acres more or less  and is part of the Grand Patent of five 
thousand acres granted to the said Coll. William Clayborne, Secretary of State, 
the first day of September Sixteen Hundred and Fifty Nine~
which said tract of eighteen hundred acres is bounded as follows to wit~
BEGINNING at the mouth of a river called Tucka Commons [?] out of the  sunken 
grounds, Thence up the side of the said Tucka Commons [ ?] to the head 
thereof , Thence North forty degrees east Twenty poles to a red oak in a 
Valley, Thence north fifteen degrees East Twenty poles to a corner hickory of 
Capt. William Claiborne in the head of the Valley in the corner Back line of 
the Grand Patent ,  thence along the old line of the Grand Patent  Six Hundred 
and forty six poles to a small corner red oak of Thomas Claiborne, Junr. , 
Standing on a side of a hill in the Old Back Line , Thence South three hundred 
poles to a corner red oak of said Thomas Claiborne Junr bounding on the East 
side of the head of Middle Creek and down the run of the said Middle Creek, the 
Several Courses to Pamunkey River, thence down the river these several courses 
to the said Capt. Thomas Claibornes Landing at Sweet Hall, to a marsh and 
thence along the side of the marsh to the sunken grounds and Eastly along the 
side of the sunken ground, the several courses to the beginning place.
WITH ALL and to have, hold and to which owning and paying and provided.  In 
witness & witness our trusty and well beloved Lord Drysdale, Esq , our 
Lieutenant Governor William Gooch under the cloak and shield of the said Colony 
this fifth day of September 1723 in the [] year of our Reign.
							HUGH DRYSDALE


Additional Comments:
Land Office Patents  No. 11, 1719-1724, p. 230 &231 , Reel 10 - LVA  
[] Indicates illegible word or word 
Capt. Thomas Claiborne 1800 acres in King William County


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