Land Grant: Amos Tharp, 1810: Pendleton County, VA (WV) Source: Land Office Grants No. 61, 1810-1811, p. 180, 181 (Reel 127) Archives at the Library of Virginia Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Lorie Tharp lore2u@aol.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Amos Tharp Sen. 50 Acres Pendleton Esq. V 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. 1851, issued the 4th day of September 1806; there is granted by said Commonwealth unto Amos Tharp Senior, a certain Parcel or Tract of Land, containing fifty 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 side of the Cowpasture River and on the east side of Shaws Ridge, opposite George Erwin's lands and bounded as followeth: To wit: Beginning at a white oak on hillside, thence north forty five degrees west, thirty two poles to two hickories on a hillside; south thirty three degrees west, eighty poles to a pine and chestnut oak on a ridge; south seventy five degrees west forty poles to a pine and two red oaks on a ridge; south twenty eight degrees west; seventy four poles to two hickories on a hillside; south fifty three degrees east, sixty six poles down Shaws Ridge and crossing a drain to a hickory sappling on a hillside, and thence north twenty degrees east,one hundred and eighty 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 Senior 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 Eight Hundred and ten and of the Commonwealth, the thirty fifth. Jno. Tyler (signature)