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

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

Abner Vance - 1855 - Land Grants - Logan County, Va.

Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants
Grant No. 111, p. 262.

Joseph Johnson Esquire, Govenor of the Commonwealth of Virginia:
     To all to whom these present shall come --- Greeting: KNOW YE,
That in conformity with a survey made on the Seventh day of January one thousand
eight hundred and forty 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 Six acres, lying in Logan County
on the Turkey Pen branch of Elk Creek of Guyandotte river and
bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at a beech and horn beam 
on the bank of said branch, corner to a survey made for Isaac
Morgan; Thence N. 67. W.20 poles to four dogwoods on a hill side
N.5.W.42 poles to a beech by a drain due East 10 poles to a sugar
tree S.21.E.44 poles to a beech and white oak S.85.E.85 poles to an
ash, corner to Morgan's survey. Thence with the line of said survey
due West 88 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
Abner Vance
and his heirs forever.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said Joseph Johnson  Esquire, Govenor
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 May in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five and of the Commonwealth the 
Seventy ninth
                                             Jos. Johnson