VA Grants 39, p. 167
Library of Virginia Digital Collection:
Land Office Patents and Grants
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Joseph Swearengen
400 Acres
Monongalia
Exd.
Grant delivered to
Capt. John ~ the
29th. January 1803

James Wood Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all To whom these
presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by Virtue of a Preemption Warrant Number
Sixteen Hundred and forty five issued the twentieth day of October one thousand Seven
hundred and eighty one, there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Joseph
Swearengen Heir at Law to John Swearengen deceased a Certain Tract or Parcel of Land
Containing four hundred Acres by Survey bearing date the twenty eighth day of March one
thousand Seven hundred and eighty Six lying and being in the County of Monongalia
adjoining lands of James Ross John Lewellin, Charles Donalson, William Norriss and
Martha Jenkins and is bounded as followeth, to wit, Beginning at a white oak adjoining to
Lands of Martha Jenkins, running thence South fifty eight degrees East one hundred and
forty eight poles to two Chesnut oaks adjoining lands of James Ross, thence with his line
North seven degrees East fifty seven poles to a white oak corner to said Ross North eighty
five degrees East forty seven poles to a poplar corner to said Ross North nine degrees
East Seventy seven poles to a Sugar tree, thence leaving Ross's line North eighty five
degrees East two hundred and three poles crossing the drains to a Chesnut oak North ten
degrees West one hundred and sixty poles to a Chesnut West one hundred and twenty six
poles, crossing a drain to a dogwood on Charles Donalsons line, thence with said line
South twenty one and a half degrees West twenty three poles to a Chesnut corner to said
Donaldson North Seventy three degrees West one hundred and thirty three poles to a white
oak Corner to Charles Donaldson and William Norriss, thence with Norriss's line South
forty one degrees West forty poles to a black oak corner to Norriss and Martha Jenkins,
thence with her lines South thirty nine degrees East Sixty four poles to a white oak corner
to Martha Jenkins thence with her line South thirty five and a half degrees West two hundren
[sic] and ten poles Crossing Norriss's Run to the Beginning with its Appurtenances to the
said Joseph Swearingen 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 Sixth day of
February in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and ninety Seven and of the
Commonwealth the twenty first
James Wood