Virginia Land Office Grant

(Left Margin)
William Gleaves
295 acres
Montgomery

Patrick Henry Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting Knowye, that by virtue of grant of a certificate in right of Settlement given by the Commissioners for adjusting the Titles to unpatented lands in the District of Washington and Montgomery Counties and in consi-deration of the Ancient Compensation of one Pound ten Shillings Sterling paid by William Gleaves into the Treasury of this Commonwealth there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto the said William Gleaves a certain Tract or parcel of Land Containing two hundred and ninety five Acres by Survey bearing date the Twelfth day of March one thousand seven hundred and Eighty three Lying and being in the county of Montgomery on the waters of Cripple creek a branch of new river and Bounded as followeth to-wit Beginning at three Poplar trees from one root North sixty four degrees East Sixty eight poles to a white oak tree South fifty nine degrees East Seventy poles

To a Black oak tree South forty seven degrees North one hundred and twenty two poles to three Chestnut trees West one hundred and thirty eight poles to two White oak trees South sixty degrees West forty four poles to a Hickory and a white oaks Saplings South fifty six poles to a large White oak tree South thirty two degrees West Seventy six poles to two white oak Saplings North eighty Degrees West one hundred and eight pole to white oak sapling South fifty six degrees West forty four poles to a Double white oak Sapling North sixty four degrees West one hundred and forty poles crossing a branch to a white oak Sapling in a hollow North seventy degrees East fifty six poles to a white oak tree North thirty five degrees East twenty eight poles to a Cherry tree South seventy degrees East thirty four poles crossing the Branch to two white oak trees and North seventy one degrees East three hundred and seventy four poles to the Beginning with its appeture-names(?) To have and to hold said Tract or parcel of land with its apputenameces to the said William Gleaves and his heirs forever. In Witness and ___ of the said Patrick Henry Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and Caused the ___ on seal of said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty five and of the Commonwealth the ninth.

Patrick Henry