Levi Farley Grant, 1847

William Smith 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 ninth day of November, One Thousand Eight Hundred
and Forty Seven(?), by virtue of Land Office Treasury Warrant No. 2751 there
is granted by the said Commonwealth unto LEVI FARLEY, assignee of GIDEON
FARLEY a certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred and ninety
acres lying and being in the County of Mercer on the waters of New River,
embracing the dwelling and (?) on which the said FARLEY now lives, and bounded
as followeth, viz: Beginning at a white oak on the north side of the ridge.
North of the wagon road and nearby adjoining land of DRURY FARLEY SR and near
to a lying down white oak known as the Oak Log, and from thence running East 3
poles to a white oaks said to be on or near a line of said FARLEY’s survey and
leaving the same North 89 degrees E 50 poles crossing the wagon road to five
chestnut saplings growing from one root, South 88 degrees East 74 poles to two
white oaks, North 10 East 48 poles to speckled oak and black oak sapling on
the bank of the river hill, North 10 degrees West 24 poles to a chestnut,
North 90 poles crossing the spring branch to speckled oak and white oak, North
4 degrees East 52 poles to a hickory in a point, South 12 degrees West 28
poles to ash sapling on the spring branch, North 14.30 degrees West 20 poles
to a poplar and hickory about one chain below the head of the spring, South 56
degrees West 37 poles crossing the spring to a white oak and a chestnut South
83 poles to a red oak South 60 degrees West 18 poles to two white oaks, North
85.30 degrees West 90 poles to a black oak, South 20 degrees West 55 poles to
a black oak and white oak on a hill side South 30 degrees East 22 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 LEVI FARLEY and his heirs forever.

In witness whereon, the said William Smith 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 thirty first
day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight
and of the Commonwealth the seventy third.

William Smith


Grant Book No.100
Page 325

Submitted by Carol Pack Urban

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