Monongalia County, WV   Land Patent for Michael Kore(Core)- 1785

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FILE=Land Patent for Michael Kore(Core) of Monongalia County
Virginia State Library Grants R, pp. 659-61


(Page 659, bottom)
in margin: Michael Kore
313 acres
Monongalia
Patrick Henry Esquire Governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia To all to whom
this presents shall come Greetings Know ye             
all
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that by virtue of part of a certificate in right of settlement
given by the commissioners for adjusting the titles
to unpatented lands in the District of Monon-
galia Yohogania and in consideration of the
ancient composition of one pound fifteen shil-
lings sterling paid by Michael Kore into the
Treasury of this Commonwealth there is grant-
ed by the said Commonwealth unto the said
Michael Kore assignee of George Kore a certain tract
or parcel of Land Containing three hundred
thirteen acres by survey bearing date the twenty
fifth day of May one thousand seven hundred
Eighty four lying and being in the County of
Monongalia on Dunkers Creek including
his settlement made thereon in the year one
Thousand seven hundred and Seventy two now
bounded as followeth To Wit, Begin-
ning at a sugar tree on the Bank
of Dunkers Creek, and running thence up the
said creek with the Meanders thereof three
hundred and Eighty two Poles to a Gum
661
thence South twenty six degrees East fifty eight poles to a
sugar tree South twenty nine degrees and a half West
two hundred and fifty four poles crossing a Drain
to two white oaks, South sixty degrees and a half East
Eighty one poles crossing a Drain to a Black oak north
Eighty two degrees East one hundred and thirty poles
crossing Husts Run to a hickory and a cherry tree North
fifteen Degrees East one hundred and ninety five
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 Michael
Kore and his Heirs for Ever In Witness where
of the said Patrick Henry Esquire Governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his
hand and caused the lesser seal of the said Com
monwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the
Thirty first day of October in the year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and Eighty five and of
the Commonwealth the Tenth.
P. Henry es.

Transcribed from copy of original by Brian Core, GreenhouseGuy@Juno.com
Copy of original obtained from State Library of Virginia