Land Grant: Amos Tharp, 1810: Pendleton County, VA (WV)
Source: Land Office Grants No. 61, 1810-1811, p. 178 (Reel 127)
Archives at the Library of Virginia

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Amos Tharp Jun.
70 Acres Pendleton
Esq. grant
del. to propietors
recd. November 5th 1810

    John Tyler, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia:
        To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting : Know Ye, 
by virtue of Land Office Treasury Warrant no. 4366, issued the 12th day of 
November 1806; there is granted by said Commonwealth unto Amos Tharp junior, 
a certain Parcel or Tract of Land, containing seventy acres, by survey 
bearing date the twenty third of November, eighteen hundred and eight, lying 
in the County of Pendleton on the east side of the Cowpasture and on the east 
side of Shaws Ridge, opposite Erwin's and Stewart's lands and bounded as 
followeth: To wit:
        Beginning at a white oak on a bank on the east side of a drain in 
the Wolf Draft thence north thirty three degrees West; ninety four poles to
two pines on the West side of Shaws Ridge; north thirty two degrees east 
one hundred and twenty poles to a red oak and a white oak on the east side of
of the ridge; north ten degrees, east thirty six poles to two hickories on a
hillside corner of his fathers land, south fifty three degrees east, sixty 
poles down the ridge and crossing a drain to a hickory sappling on a hillside
south twenty four degrees west one hundred and ninety poles to the beginning;
with its appurtenances.
To have to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances, to 
the said Amos Tharp Junior and his heirs forever.
         In witness whereof; the said John Tyler, Esquire, Governor of the 
Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his hand and caused the Lesser 
Seal of the Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond, on the seventeenth day of 
September in the year of Our Lord One Thousand EightHundred and ten 
and of the Commonwealth, the thirty fifth.      Jno. Tyler (signature)