Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Williamson, Burwell, 1771 

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Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Land Records 
     Burwell WILLIAMSON, patent, 267 acres, 3 Aug 1771 

[margin note]  Burwell Williamson } 
                  267 Acres       } 
               Form page 1        } 

George the third &c.  To all &c.  Know ye that for divers good causes & Considerations 
but more especially for and in Consideration of the sum of Thirty shillings 
of good and lawful money for our use paid to our Receiver General of our 
Revenues in this our Colony & 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 Burwell Williamson one certain tract or 
parcel of Land containing two hundred and sixty seven acres lying and 
being in the Parish of Nottoway in the County of Southampton on the 
South side of black Water River and bounded as followeth, to wit, ~ 
Beginning at a Live Oak Burwell Williamson's and Thomas Holliman's 
corner  thence South fifty Degrees East seventy five Poles to a Pine, ~ 
Burwell Williamson's corner in the head of a branch  thence by his lines 
down the branch South Seventy seven Degrees West eighty six Poles to 
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a black Gum South fifty five Degrees East one hundred and eight 
Poles to a live Oak South seventy four Degrees East seventy two Poles 
to a dead pine and South twenty three Degrees East eighty Poles to a 
red Oak John Harris's corner  thence South eighty seven Degrees 
East seventy Poles to a pine, thence North thirty seven Degrees East 
fifty two Poles to a sweet Gum  thence North fifteen Degrees West ~ 
twenty eight Poles toa small white Oak  North seventy one Degrees 
West thirty two Poles to a pine John Griffin's corner  thence North 
thirty four Degrees West three hundred and fifty Poles to three trees chopt 
inwards  thence South West one hundred Poles to the Beginning  With 
all &c.  To have hold &c.  To be held &c.  Yielding & paying &c.  Pro_
vided &c.  In Witness &c.  Witness our trusty and welbeloved William ~ 
Nelson Esquire President of our Council and Commander in Chief of 
our said Colony and Dominion at Williamsburg under the Seal 
of our said Colony the third day of August one thousand seven ~ 
hundred and seventy one in the eleventh year of our Reign. 
Ex.d                                   Wm. Nelson  .P. 


Virginia State Land Office Patents No. 40 (1771-1772), pp. 579-80 
The Library of Virginia (LVA), Richmond, VA, 
   Land Office Microfilm Reel 39 

images online at the LVA's Virginia Memory website (Digital Collections): 
http://www.virginiamemory.com/

Burwell WILLIAMSON sold about half this tract (133a.) 
   to Benjamin HARRIS [HARRISS], 11 Mar 1779. 
   Southampton Co., VA, Deed Book 5 (1773-1775), pp. 392-93; file at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/deeds/05db392.txt 


Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Matt Harris, Zoobug64@aol.com [brackets mine] 

[HARRIS, GRIFFIN, HOLLEMAN, HOLLIMAN, WILLIAMSON] 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/deeds/40pb579.txt