Land Grant for Richard NORTH, 1800
James Monroe Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia
to all whom
these presents shall come Greeting Know Ye that by virtue of two
land office
Treasury warrants to wit one hundred acres by Number two thousand
eight
hundred and forty one issued the twelfth day of December seventeen
hundred
and ninety nine and one hundred and forty acres by Number eighteen
hundred
and sixty four issued the twenty fifth day of March seventeen
hundred and
ninety six. There is granted by the said commonwealth, unto Richard
North
Certain land on parcel of land containing two hundred and forty
five acres
of land by survey bearing date the third day of December eighteen
hundred
lying and being in the County of Buckingham and bounded as followeth
to wit
beginning at a black walnut stump on the west bank of Wreck Island
creek on
an old line in his own Plantation, thence along the said old line
South
sixty seven degrees west seventy six poles using Bradleys old
road and a
branch to pointers North twelve degrees west ninety six poles
to a large
white oak and pointer near the Fluvanna river on the edges of
Goins hill in
Thomas Matthew's old line, thence along the same South twenty
eight degrees
West, seventy six poles to pointers South fifteen degrees West
forty five
poles to a red oak South fifty three degrees West ninety eight
poles to a
pine South three degrees East sixty six poles to pointers South
thirty nine
degrees West three eighteen poles to pointers in Booth and Staple's
line
thence along the same South fourteen degrees East eighty poles
to pointers
thence off a new line North sixty six degrees East ninety poles
using * a
deep valley to pointers on an old line supposed to be Viennons
order of
council live there along the same North eighty seven degrees East
by forty
four poles to a large branch and down the sarlie to its measures
forty two
poles to where it empties into Wreck Island creek, thence using
the creek
and running a forth ten degrees East thirty nine poles to two
small white
oaks, thence a blazed line the same course continues fifty one
poles to a
blazed post oak in an old line, supposed to be the aforesaid over
line
thence along the same North twenty six degrees West twenty two
poles to
blazed saplings, thence along a blazed line South thirty degrees
West sixty
poles to the beginning with it's appurtenances to have and hold
the said
hast or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said Richard
North and
his heirs for ever, In Witness wherof the same James Monroe Esquire
Governor
ofthe Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and
caused the
lesser seal of the Commonweatlth to be affixed at Richmond on
the sixteenth
day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and one
of the Commonwealth the [hoonly] sixth,
/s/ James Monroe
Note up the side:
* Using Bradleys old road to a post [cali] North fifty degrees
East one
hundred and thirty nine poles to a red oak South twenty degrees
West thirty
four poles.
My interest:
Two North sisters, descendants of Richard North, married two Wilmer
brothers, sons of Reuben Wilmore and Sarah Stinnett. One couple
became my
great-grandparents.