PATRICK COUNTY, VA - DEEDS - Eliphas Shelton Grant, 9 Jun 1804 ----¤¤¤---- Commonwealth of Va. Land Office, Grants & Patents, Book 53 (1804), pp. 116-117 Grantee: Eliphas Shelton 200 acres, Patrick Co., Va. Date: 9 June 1804 JOHN PAGE esquire, governor of the commonwealth of Virginia To all to whom these presents shall come greeting, KNOW YE, That by virtue of a Land Office treasury warrant, number two thousand one hundred and sixty eight, issued the thirteenth day of April, seventeen hundred and ninety seven, there is granted by the said commonwealth unto Eliphas Shelton, a certain tract or parcel of land, containing two hundred acres by survey bearing date the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and two, lying and being in the county of Patrick on the waters of the Bull mountain fork of the south Mayo river and bounded as followeth to wit, BEGINNING at his own corner white-oak, with his line, north fourteen degrees, east forty poles to pointers, new line, north eighty-four degrees, west ninety eight poles, crossing a branch to a white-oak and locust, south sixty eight degrees west eighty poles, crossing the aforesaid fork to a white-oak, south twenty three degrees, west sixty poles to a chesnut tree, south forty-one degrees, east thirty-eight poles to two white-oaks, south twenty five degrees east fifty poles to pointers in Strongs line, with his line, north fifty-seven degrees, east twenty eight poles crossing the aforesaid fork to a white-oak, south thirty-nine degrees, east forty-four poles to a beech on the same, thence down the same as it meanders, and across two hundred and twenty poles to a white-oak at the mouth of a branch, north sixty three degrees, west twenty poles, to a dogwood, new line, south twenty degrees, east seventy two poles to pointers in Fains line with his line, north fifty three degrees, east twenty poles, crossing the said fork to a white-oak, then new lines, north twenty degrees west fifty poles to a chesnut oak near a clift of rocks, north eighteen degrees, east eighteen poles to a white-oak, north twenty-seven degrees, west twenty poles to pointers, on a fork of the said fork, thence up the same as it meanders ninety poles to the aforesaid Shelton's corner on two beeches with his line, north forty-seven degrees, west forty-four poles to a white-oak, north twelve degrees, west one hundred and sixteen poles to a white-oak, north eighty five degrees, west fifty poles to a fallen white-oak, north fourteen degrees, east fifty poles crossing a branch to a white-oak, and thence north, twenty six 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 Eliphas Shelton, and his heirs forever. In witness whereof the said John Page 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 ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four and of the commonwealth the twenty eighth. John Page (Transcribed by Mary C. Smith from a copy of the grant document, Library of Virginia, Electronic Card Indexes, Land Records, Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants, Surname Index, "Shelton, A-J," Card #30 of 74, Retrieve Doc.) Submitted by Mary C. Smith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Smith ----------------------------------------------------------------------