NOVEMBER 4 1828
GRANT TO GODFREY MILLER

"...in the County of Shenandoah on Little Stony Creek..."
*NOTE: Transcribed from the original document as written



William B. Giles Esqr. 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 twelfth day of September 1817; by virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant No. 6878, issued the March 22nd 1820; there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Godfrey Miller, A certain Tract or parcel of Land containing One hundred acres, situate (sic) in the County of Shenandoah on Little Stony Creek, and bounded as followeth to wit:

Beginning at a chesnut oak and black oak where a white oak formerly stood a corner to the other Lands of said Miller and to Benjamin Dillinger and on an East hill side near and on the west side of Stony Creek and extending from thence N. 70 1/2 degrees W. 16.s poles to two Linden trees on a high bank; thence N 1/2 degree E. 4 poles to a spanish oak hickory and birch at the foot of said bank, a corner to the land fo David Funkhouser's heirs thence with a line fo theirs N. 15 3/4 degrees W 189.5 poles to a large rock between a cornered chesnut and poplar and marked a sassafras; thence S 36 degrees W 123.5 poles to a hickory and black oak saplings at te foot of the high ridge a corner to the Land of John Newman in said Funkhouser's line, thence with said Newman's lines N. 28 degrees W 28 poles to 3 chesnut oaks on a steep hill side; thence N 36 degrees E 28.5 poles to a large white oak tree with the top broken off; and a small dogwood sapling by it, thence N 45 degrees E 127 poles to a black oak tree by some large rocks; thence S. 36 degrees E. 180 poles crossing Gap mountain to two pines; said Newman's corner in Benjamin Delinger's line, and thence with the same S. 31 degrees W. 106.5 poles to the beginning

To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of Land, with its appurtenances to the said Godfrey Miller, and his heirs forever.

In witness whereof the said William B. Giles 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 fourth day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, and of the Commonwealth the fifty third.

Wm. B. Giles



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