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Subject: Land Patents/Grants - Samuel Pack 1799
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 15:30:59 EST


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Land Patents & Grants found at the Library of Virginia's electronic card index
website. The Pack patents/grants start on card 24 - 54 under Pace.

You must download their TIFF viewer in order to view the original documents
and to download them to your computer. I spent most of the past few days
doing that for Farley. I'm starting on Pack now.

I found this one for Samuel Pack on the same page as Francis Farley, his
brother in law. It is not listed under the Pack cards, I'm assuming because
the person cataloging the cards misread it to be Samuel Peck. This is going
to be a very time consuming project for me. I'm downloading the original
documents, copy and pasting them into a Word document in order to print them
(I have not been able to print them in their TIFF format) and then after
printing am transcribing and typing them into another Word document.

I have found earlier patents/grants from 1787 but I haven't started on them
yet.

Carol Pack Urban
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SAMUEL PACK -- GREENBRIER CO., VA

James Wood Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. To all to whom
these presents shall come, Greetings. Know ye that by virtue of a Preemption
Warrant, number Thirteen Hundred and Sixty Nine issued the twentieth day of
June, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Two there is granted by the said
Commonwealth unto SAMUEL PACK a certain tract or parcel of land containing
fifty acres by survey bearing date the twelfth day of October, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Ninety Six, lying and being in the County of Greenbrier at
the north side of the New River between where said PACK now lives and Estill’s
Bottom and opposite the mouth of the Bluestone and bounded as followeth, to
wit, Beginning at three white oaks and a red oak at the south side of a rocky
knob near a spring on the west side of said knob, running south seventy seven
degrees, west forty three poles to two hickories and a chestnut and near the
top of said ridge, north sixty seven degrees, west forty poles to three black
oaks on the top, north forty two degrees, west sixteen poles to a white oak on
the top, north sixty eight degrees, west thirty five poles to a large white
oak at the head of a hollow near the top of said ridge, south seventy three
degrees, west twenty two poles to a black oak on the edge of said hill, south
sixty seven degrees, west thirteen poles to two white oaks on the point of
said hill, north thirty eight degrees, east twenty five poles to two red oaks
and dogwoods on a point of the west side south eighty two degrees, east thirty
two poles to a black oak on the top of said ridge, south fifty three degrees,
east thirty eight poles to two dogwoods on the head of the PACK’s back hollow,
north sixty one degrees, east twenty three poles to two red oaks on a point
north eight three degrees, east twenty six poles crossing a hollow to a
chestnut and black oak in {looks like a flat or a plat} north fifteen degrees,
east eighteen poles to two white oaks in said plat, north six degrees, west
twenty two poles to two white oaks in the head of a hollow, north forty seven
degrees, west nineteen poles to a white oak and chestnut oak on the top of a
point, north fifty two degrees, east twelve poles to a poplar in the head of a
hollow, south sixty three degrees, east forty three poles to a white oak and
sassafras near the spring branch, north seventy four degrees, east thirty two
poles to a black oak and chestnut oak on a point, south sixty one degrees,
east thirty three poles to two white oaks in a hollow, south fifty five
degrees, west ninety six 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 SAMUEL PACK and his HEIRS forever. In witness whereof the said James
Wood 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 fifteenth day of January in the year of our Lord, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Ninety Nine and the Commonwealth the twenty third.

James Wood
(his signature)

Grant Book No. 42
1798-1799
Pages 124-126

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