NOVEMBER 15, 1798
GRANT TO HENRY HOTTLE

"...lying and being in the County of Shenandoah on Buck hill and on the sides thereof..."
*NOTE: Transcribed from the original document as written



James Wood Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia

To all To whom these Presents shall come Greeting:

Know ye, That by virtue of part of two Land Office Treasury Warrants Numbers, one hundred and thirteen, and one hundred and twenty five, there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Henry Hottle a Certain Tract or parcel of Land containing one hundred and sixty Acres by Survey bearing date the ninth day of April One thousand Seven hundred and ninety five, lying and being in the County of Shenandoah on Buck hill and on the sides thereof and is bounded as followeth, to wit

Beginning at a hickory standing in and near the head of a Valley corner to Jacob Hammon and running thence with his lines, North thirty three degrees East eighty six poles to a large white oak near the foot of a hill thence North sixty six degrees and thirty minutes West fifty six poles to another large white oak on teh top of said hill, in Peter Dotsons line, thence with his line North eighty degrees East one hundred and forty eight poles to a locust and hickory in the said line, then leaving it South eighteen degrees West two hundred and forty five poles to four white oaks near the top of said Buck hill thence the same course continues eighty four poles to two pines at the end of a Spurr thence South sixty degrees West sixty eight poles crossing the said hill to some rock stones, between two pines on the West side of said hill in the line of the Land belonging to Mary Huntsberger and others and thence with that line North eleven degrees West one hundred and twenty eight poles to a stake near three marked black oaks, corner to said Huntsbuerger and others and to Jacob Hammon, thence with Hammons lines South forty five degrees East forty poles to a black oak and a pine near a forked white oak standing on the Northwesterly sie of Buck hill, then along the side of the said hill North twenty seven degrees East one hundred and eight poles to three pines and then North forty five degrees West, thirty eight poles to the Beginning With its appurtenances;

To have and To hold the said Tract or parcel of Land with its appurtenances, to the said Henry Hottle and his Heirs forever. In Witness whereof the said James Wood 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 fifteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, and of the Commonwealth the twenty third.



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