Logan County, West Virginia        Abner Vance - 1849 - Land Grant

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Submitted by <swoosley@ols.net> Sonya Woosley, Feb 1999


Abner Vance - 1849 - Land Grant - Logan County, Va.
Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants
Grants No. 102, p. 156

John B. Floyd         Esquire, Govenor of the Commonwealth of Virginia:
     TO ALL to whom these Presents shall come -- Greeting: KNOW YE, That in
conformity with a survey made on the eleventh day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and forth eight, by virtue of Land Office Treasury
Warrant No. 16, 840
there is granted by the said Commonwealth, unto  Abner Vance

     a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing twentynine acres, lying and being
in the County of Logan on the Right hand fork of Elk Creek
of Guyandotte river, & bounded as follows, Viz:  Beginning
at a large poplar and two beeches near the mouth of the Dingess
fork thence up said fork S. 10 E. 40 poles to three lynns and sugar
___ on Dingess fork n.36.E.40. poles to two beeches on a point Thence up
said right hand fork  N. 71. E. 124 poles to a sugar tree S.75.E.98 poles
to an ash and beech on a point S. 86. E. 74 poles to two Beeches in a bottom
S. 77. E. 66 poles to two beeches on a flat N.10.E. 12 poles to a beech; Thence
down said fork N.79.W.68 poles to a beech N.86.W.74 poles to a beech
n.75.W.98 poles to a maple and beech S.70.W.68 poles to two sugar trees
S.80.W.48 poles to a beech and white oak. S.70.W.40 poles to the beginning
with its appurtenances



TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of Land, with its appurtenances, to 
Abner Vance
and his heirs forever.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said John B. Floyd   Esquire, Govenor
of the Commomwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his hand, and caused the Lesser 
Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed, at Richmond, on the thirty first day 
of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine and of 
the Commonwealth the seventy fourth

                                 Jno. B. Floyd