Nicholas County, West Virginia    John Cogar - Nicholas Co WV Land Grant 1846

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John Cogar - Nicholas Co VA(WV) Land Grant 1846

John Cogar
41 acres
Nicholas County
[---] to [---] Hill
[---] Mar. 1847

William Smith Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth
of Virginia:

To all to whom these Presents shall come -- GREETING:
KNOW YE, That in conformity with a survey made on the
twenty third day of January one thousand Eight hundred
and twenty nine, by virtue of Land Office Treasury Warrant
N.9206[?], there is granted by the said Commonwealth, unto
John Cogar, a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing
forty one acres lying and being in the County of Nicholas,
on the Laurel fork of Holly Creek, joining the land of Jacob
Conrad, and bounded as follows, viz:

Beginning at a Poplar and beech corner to said Conrad.
Thence S.49.E.52 poles crossing the Creek, to a beech on
said line, and leaving N.10.E.60 poles to a hickory N.33.
E.21 poles to a Spanish Oak and Sugar tree N10[?].E.44 poles
to a beech in the mouth of a hollow N.8.W.72 poles to a Small
Sugar tree in the bottom West 14 poles, crossing the Creek
to two Small poplars on the bank S.14.W.155 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 John Cogar and his
heirs forever.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 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 Thirtieth
day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and Forty six and of the Commonwealth
the Seventy first

Wm Smith
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