DECEMBER 12 1793
GRANT TO GEORGE HAWN

"...on a small drain of McNeeses Run..."
*NOTE: Transcribed from the original document as written



Henry Lee Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, To all to whom these presents shall come greeting:

Know ye that by virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant Number one hundred and twenty five issued the ninth day of November one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine, There is granted by the said Commonwealth, unto George Hawn a certain tract or parcel of Land, containing Three & a half acres by survey bearing date the fifth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; lying and being in the county of Shenandoah, on a small drain of McNeeses Run, and bounded as followeth to wit:

Beginning at two small black oak saplings standing in a small Valley in the line of the said Hawns former tract of Land and about two poles form his corner and extending thence South thirty degrees West seventeen poles to two white oaks on a hill corner to Joseph Pugh on Nicholas Wetzels line, thence with the said Pughs line South fifty seven degrees East sixty six poles to three small black walnuts corner to said Pughs land in the said Hawns line, and then with the said Hawns line, North thirty nine degrees West sixty eight poles to the Beginning. With its Appurtenances to the said George Hawn and his Heirs forever:

In Witness whreof the said Henry Lee Esquire 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 twelfth day December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three and of the Commonwealth the Eighteenth.

Henry Lee



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