MAY 11 1804
GRANT TO JACOB BEAM (BOEHM)

"...in the county of Shenandoah on the drains of Pass run..."
*NOTE: Transcribed from the original document as written



John Page 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 warrent, number three thousand and twenty three issued the second day of December eighteen hundred, there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Jacob Beam a certain tract or parcel of land, containing seventy-five acres, by survey bearing date the twenty fifth day of September eighteen hundred and two, lying and being in the county of Shenandoah on the drains of Pass run and bounded as followeth, to wit:

Beginning at a chesnut oak on a hill side, corner to said Jacob and Tobias Beams land running thence north forty eight degrees west sixty five poles to two chesnut oaks, thence south eighty six degrees, west one hundred and three poles, to two hickories and a gum, on the bank of a gulley, thence south seven degrees, west one hundred and thirty four poles to a white pine and chesnut oak, corner to the said Jacob Beam and Tobias Beam, and to the land which formerly belonged to Peter Kibler, and then with the said Jacob and Tobias's line reversing the course north sixty degrees thirty minutes, east one hundred and ninety six 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 Jacob Beam and his heirs forever.

In witness whereof the said John Page 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 eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and four and of the Commonwealth the twenty eighth.



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