Greenbrier County, West Virginia - Land Office Treasury Warrant - Samuel Pack ********************************************************************** USGENWEB 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. ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** The records for this work have been submitted by Carol Pack Urban, E-mail address: , January, 1999. ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** SAMUEL PACK -- GREENBRIER CO., VA James Wood Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greetings. Know ye that by virtue of a Preemption Warrant, number Thirteen Hundred and Sixty Nine issued the twentieth day of June, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Two there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto SAMUEL PACK a certain tract or parcel of land containing fifty acres by survey bearing date the twelfth day of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Six, lying and being in the County of Greenbrier at the north side of the New River between where said PACK now lives and Estill’s Bottom and opposite the mouth of the Bluestone and bounded as followeth, to wit, Beginning at three white oaks and a red oak at the south side of a rocky knob near a spring on the west side of said knob, running south seventy seven degrees, west forty three poles to two hickories and a chestnut and near the top of said ridge, north sixty seven degrees, west forty poles to three black oaks on the top, north forty two degrees, west sixteen poles to a white oak on the top, north sixty eight degrees, west thirty five poles to a large white oak at the head of a hollow near the top of said ridge, south seventy three degrees, west twenty two poles to a black oak on the edge of said hill, south sixty seven degrees, west thirteen poles to two white oaks on the point of said hill, north thirty eight degrees, east twenty five poles to two red oaks and dogwoods on a point of the west side south eighty two degrees, east thirty two poles to a black oak on the top of said ridge, south fifty three degrees, east thirty eight poles to two dogwoods on the head of the PACK’s back hollow, north sixty one degrees, east twenty three poles to two red oaks on a point north eight three degrees, east twenty six poles crossing a hollow to a chestnut and black oak in {looks like a flat or a plat} north fifteen degrees, east eighteen poles to two white oaks in said plat, north six degrees, west twenty two poles to two white oaks in the head of a hollow, north forty seven degrees, west nineteen poles to a white oak and chestnut oak on the top of a point, north fifty two degrees, east twelve poles to a poplar in the head of a hollow, south sixty three degrees, east forty three poles to a white oak and sassafras near the spring branch, north seventy four degrees, east thirty two poles to a black oak and chestnut oak on a point, south sixty one degrees, east thirty three poles to two white oaks in a hollow, south fifty five degrees, west ninety 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 SAMUEL PACK and his HEIRS forever. In witness whereof the said James Wood 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 fifteenth day of January in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Nine and the Commonwealth the twenty third. James Wood (his signature) Grant Book No. 42 1798-1799 Pages 124-126