Deed - William Chisholm to James Rains - Orange Co., VA ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Submitted by Karan Raines Callaway Callkrc@aol.com ************************************************************* Know all men by these presents that I William Chisholm of the County of Orange for and in consideration of the sum of forty pounds current money to me in hand paid by James Rains of the County aforesaid, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have bargaines, sold and delivered and do by these presents bargain, sell & deliver unto the said James Rains one hundred and sixty six acres of land lying and being in the County of Orange on the Rappidan River and bounded by the including lines of two surveys as followeth. Beginning at a spanish and ? oak corner to Thomas Mitchell on the south side the Rappadan river thence S 87 poles to three red oak saplings thence N 66 degrees E 38 poles to three pines thence S 72 E 148 poles crossing mountain run to three white oaks in the log grounds on the said run thence N 58 E 126 poles to a small sycamore on the aforesaid river thence up the said river the several courses to the beginning.............. ............................ 20th day of June 1794 William Chisholm witnesses: Thomas Chambers Frank Hughes Thomas Chambers, Jr