Monongalia County WV Archives Deed.....Hiley, George - Virginia, Virginia October 31, 1785 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Brian Core greenhouseguy@comcast.net May 20, 2010, 4:24 am Written: October 31, 1785 George Hiley 273 acres Monongalia Patrick Henry Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by Virtue of a Certificate in Right of Settlement given by the Commissioners for adjusting the Titles to unpatented Lands in the District of Monongalia Yohogania & Ohio and in Consideration of the Ancient Compensation of one pound ten shillings sterling paid by George Hiley into the Treasury of this Commonwealth there is Granted by the said Commonwealth unto the said George Hiley a Certain Tract or parcel of Land containing two hundred and seventy three acres by survey bearing date the the Twenty fifth day of May one thousand seven hundred and Eighty four lying and being in the County of Monongalia on Dunkers Creek Including his Settlement given made in the year on Thousand seven hundred and seventy and bounded as followeth to Wit Beginning at a white oak in Pennsylvania line and running thence forth one degree west twenty two poles to Dunkers Creek thence up the said creek with the meanders thereof five hundred and twenty four Poles to a white oak thence North twelve Degrees East Twenty five Poles to a white oak North Twenty Nine degrees West one hundred and Twenty fifty four [sic] Poles Crossing a run to a white oak in Pennsylvania line East two hundred and sixty nine poles to along the said line to the Beginning with its Appurtenances to have and to hold the said Tract or parcel of Land With its Appurtenances to the said George Hiley and his Heirs for Ever In Witness whereof the said Patrick Henry 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 October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty five and of the Commonwealth the Tenth P. Henry (Virginia Land Office Grants R, pp. 656-658). File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/monongalia/deeds/virginia7ndd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wvfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb