Land Grant: John Phares, 1855: Braxton County, VA (WV)

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John Phares
75 Acres
Braxton
Ex
delivered to H.P. Samuels
Mar 11, 1856

       Joseph Johnson Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia:
To all to whom these presents shall come Greetings: Know YE,That in 
conformity with a survey made on the twenty fourth day of April, one thousand 
eight hundred and fifty four by Virtue of Land Office Treasury Warrant 
No.21,284 there is granted by the Commonwealth, unto John Phares a certain 
Tract or Parcel of Land containing seventy five acres, lying in Braxton 
county,on the South side of the right hand fork of ValleyRiver and adjoining 
a seventy five acre survey owned by Said Phares & onwhich he now resides, 
bounded as follows;
      Viz, beginning at a beech on a hillside at or near where a line of a 
survey made for Walter Cool strikes said Phares' said 75 acre survey, Thence
running up the hill with a line of said Cool's said survey S73 and a half
W42 poles to a beech, a corner to said Cools survey & thence with the same
bearing 25 poles to a sugar N29 and a half W169 poles to a sugar hickory
N89degrees E113 poles to a stone & white oak stump on the bank of a run near
said Phares house, said white oak stump being a corner of a survey made for
Christian Bickle, thence with the line of said Bickles said survey S15 E99
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 James Wood and his heirs forever.
      In witness whereof the said, Joseph Johnson, 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
first day of Oct in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty five, and of the Commonwealth, the eightieth. Jos Johnson(sig.)

Source: Land Office Grants No. 106, 1851-1852, p. 735 (Reel 172). 
Library of Virginia Archives