Joel Farley Grant, 1856

Henry A Wise, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia; To all to
whom these presents shall come--Greetings: Know ye that in confirmity with a
survey made on the sixteenth day of June One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty
Six by virtue of Land Office Treasury Warrants No. 20819 and 22221 there is
granted by the said Commonwealth unto JOEL FARLEY a certain tract or parcel of
land, containing one hundred and sixty acres, lying in Mercer County on the
waters of New River and Little Pipestem and bounded as follows, viz:
Beginning at a white oak one ridge and corner to a tract surveyed for WILLIAM
R NEELY and being at North 5 East 38 poles to two chestnut oaks and a white
oak N 53 W crossing the head of a hollow14 poles to a white oak and chestnut
oak North 14 East 40 poles to two black oaks North 12 East 10 poles to a black
oak and chestnut oak N37 East 18 poles to a large white oak on a steep hill
side, North 7 West 52 poles to a black oak North 73 West 30 poles to two white
oaks South 72.30 West 76 poles to two white oaks South 39 West 24 poles to a
black oak and two small white oaks, corner to a tract of 170 acres surveyed
for GEORGE COOK, south two lines of said survey reversing this corner, South
58 East 104 poles to a double oak and oak, chestnut and sourwood on a ridge
South 22 West 40 poles to a station in COOK’s line and leaving it South 13
East 11 poles to a hickory and spotted oak, South 13 East crossing the sugar
camp hollow 140 poles to a black oak and two chestnut oaks and corner to
WILSON FARLEY thence with lines dividing the latter JOEL FARLEY, South 46 E 7
poles to two white oak South 70 East 27 poles to a lynn and small poplar,
Southj 40 East 24 poles to a maple on a branch, South 7 East 26 poles to a
large chestnut South 15 West 20 poles to a white oak near the pond South 35
West 13 poles South 70 West 4 poles South 40 West 30 poles toa small white
oak, South 23 Esat 34 poles South 10 East 40 poles to a white oak, hickory
North 70 East 124 poles to a white oak in a flat corner to NEELY and with
lines of said survey reversing their courses North 6 West 52 poles to three
chestnut oaks North 50 West 60 poles to three black oak saplings on a point
North 28 West 36 poles to a chestnut oak North 33 West 14 poles to a chestnut
North 26 West 41 to a white oak North 20 West 94 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 JOEL FARLEY and his heirs forever.

In witness whereof, the said Henry A Wise, 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
October in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Seven,
and of the Commonwealth the eighty second.

Henry A Wise

Grant Book No. 114
Page 230

Submitted by Carol Pack Urban

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