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From: Ellen Pack <>
Subject: Re: Land Patents/Grants - Samuel Pack 1799
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 09:12:28 -0500


Good stuff, Carol - Thanks for posting!

Ellen

At 03:30 PM 1/2/99 -0500, wrote:
>http://198.17.62.51/#land
>
>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
>----------------
>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 Estills
>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 PACKs 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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