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.

Submitted by:Ann Wilmer

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