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Subject: Benjamin Pack - 100 acres - Botetourt Co., VA 1787
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 19:16:29 EST
BENJAMIN PACK - 100 acres - BOTETOURT CO., VA
Beverly Randolph Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia,
To all to whom these presents come, Greetings: Know ye that in consideration
of the ancient composition of ten shillings sterling paid by BENJAMIN PACK
unto the Treasury of the Commonwealth there is granted by the said
Commonwealth unto said BENJAMIN PACK, assignee of Colonel William Flemming, a
certain tract or parcel of land, containing one hundred acres, by survey
bearing date the twenty first day of May, One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Eighty Five, lying and being in the County of Botetourt on the waters of
Looneys Creek a branch of James River joining the land of Hugh McNeil and the
land of Robert Montgomery and Patrick Sharkey and his own land and bounded as
followeth, to wit. Beginning at two white oaks corner to said Sharkey and
Montgomery land and runneth north eighty degrees past one hundred and forty
four poles to two white oaks and black oak, north five degrees past one
hundred and forty eight poles to two black oaks, north twenty degrees, east to
a white oak and black oak saplings in a hollow corner to Hugh McNeil and with
his line, south twenty degrees, east one hundred and four poles to two black
oaks on a ridge, thence south twenty nine degrees, (cant make out this word)
forty poles to two large white oaks corner to his own land, south twenty
degrees, west one hundred and fifty two poles to white oaks on a ridge, thence
north eight degrees, east two hundred poles to the beginning with its
appurtenances. To have and to hold the said tract of land with its
appurtenances to the said BENJAMIN PACK and his HEIRS forever. In witness
whereof, the said Beverly Randolph Esquire, Lieutenant 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 tenth day of
July in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Seven and
of the Commonwealth the twelfth.
Beverly Randolph
(his signature)
Grant Book No. 13
1787
Pgs 234 - 235
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