Jackson Farley Grant, 1853

Joseph Johnson, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia; To all to
whom these presents shall come--Greetings: Know ye that in conformity with a
survey made on the fourth day of August One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty
Three by virtue of Land Office Treasury Warrant, No.s 19764 and 21476 there is
granted by the said Commonwealth unto JACKSON FARLEY a certain tract or parcel
of land containing eighty acres lying in Wyoming County in the Gulf Fork of
Rockcastle Creek of the Big Fork of the Guyandotte River, and bounded as
follows, viz. Beginning at a double maple and spruce pines near the Gulf Fork
of Rockcastle, thence South 53 degrees West 72 poles to a white oak on the top
of the Gulf Fork ridge, North 48 degrees West 78 poles to a chestnut oak and
service(?) on the top of a point of Main Rockcastle, due North 42 poles to a
chestnut oak on the top of a point, North 32 degrees East 56 poles to a white
oak on the Mill Branch of Rockcastle, North 79 degrees East 20 poles to a
spruce pine in the Mill Branch, a corner of the survey made for JOSEPH FARLEY,
therewith the lines of the same, South 52 degrees East 74 poles to a poplar
and birch on the hill side. Thence East 5 degrees West 72 poles to the
beginning with its appurtenances.

To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtances to
the said JACKSON FARLEY and his heirs forever.

In witness, the said Joseph Johnson, 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 first day of March in the year
of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Four and of the Commonwealth
the twenty eighth.

Joseph Johnson

Grant Book No. 109
Page 499

Submitted by Carol Pack Urban

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