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 Survey of land to William Henly

  • » Date: 1816-02-22
  • » Subject: Survey of land to William Henly
  • » Written By: Wilson Cary Nicholas
  • » Addressed To: William Henly
  • » Transcriber: Lois Gleaves
  • » File # 1228

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Wilson Cary Nicholas Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting: Know ye, that in conformity with a survey made on the 8th day of February 1774, and in consideration of the composition of five dollars and fifty six cents. There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto William Henly a certain tract or parcel of land containing two hundred and twenty seven acres, situate at date of said survey in the County of Fincastle on Thorn branch waters of Cripple creek, and bounded as followeth towit, Beginning at a red oak, black oak & hickory amongst pines Thence South ninety eight poles to a black oak North seventy degrees East two hundred and ninety six poles to two white oak saplings North thirty four degrees East eighty one poles to a red oak and two white oaks North twenty eight degrees West eighty one poles to three white oaks on a spur of the Lick mountain South sixty six degrees West one hundred and sixty poles to a double dogwood and two pines and thence South sixty degrees West one hundred and fifty nine poles to the beginning; it being part of an order of Council granted to the Royal Company to take up and survey Eight hundred thousand acres, which order was established and confirmed by a decree of the Court of Appeals made in the City of Richmond on the second day of May 1783 with its appurtenances To Have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said William Henly and his heirs forever. In Witness whereof the said Wilson C. Nicholas Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser seal of the said Commomwealth to be affixed, at Richmond, on the twenty second day of February in the year of our Lord 1816, and of the Commonwealth the fortieth.

W. C. Nicholas
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A Copy from the Records of the Virginia Land Office
Teste,
S. H. Parker Reg. L. Office

(Bk 65 pa 412)


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Copy of Henley
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Transcriber Notes

Wilson Cary Nicholas was the Governor of Virginia from 1814 to 1816.

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