Deed for Peter BAYS of Washington County, VA - 1783
170a. on the waters of Clinch River and on the north side of
McClanahans Elk Garden Tract
Submitted by Mary Barnett  <Goodbays@aol.com >

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Grants 16, p. 515
Treasury Warrant dated 21 MAR 1783 
                    Survey dated 24 MAR 1786
                          Recorded 14 April 1788


Edmund Randolph Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. To
all to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by ______
and in Consideration of Land Office Treasury Warrant Number Fifteen
Thousand one hundred and fifty two ________ the twenty first day of
March one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty three there is granted by
the Said Commonwealth unto Peter Bays assignee of Jacob Crabtree a
certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred and seventy
acres by Survey bearing Date the twenty fourth day of March One
Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Six lying and being in the County of
Washington on the Waters of Clinch River and on the North Side of
McClanahans Elk Garden Tract and bounded as follows To Wit.  Beginning
at the white oak on the South Side of ________ Mountain thence South
sixteen degrees West seventy nine poles to two Sugartrees and Buckeyes
on said McClanahans line North sixty three degrees East one hundred
and twenty two poles to a Buckeye Ash and large Walnut South fifty
nine degrees East twenty eight poles to two Sugartrees and Chesnut
tree on the end of a ridge North forty five degrees East one hundred
and sixty four poles leaving _____ said line to two Dogwoods _______
red oak on the Top of a ridge North thirty six degrees East one
hundred and eight poles to two red oaks by a sink hole North twenty
six degrees West fifty four poles to two Sugartrees and a chesnut at
the foot of said mountain thence South fifty one and a half degrees
West three hundred and forty three 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 Peter Bays and his heirs forever.
In Witness whereof the said Edmund Randolph Esquire Governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia has hereunto set his hand and caused the seal
of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the fourteenth
day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and
eighty eight and of the Commonwealth the twelfth.

                                                Edm. Randolph