OCTOBER 9, 1799
GRANT TO JACOB HOTTLE

"...lying and being in the County of Shenandoah at the foot and along the side of the little north mountain..."
*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 a Land Office Treasury Warrant Number fourteen thousand one hundred and eighty two there is Granted by the said Commonwealth unto Jacob Hottle a certain tract or parcel of Land Containing one hundred acres by survey bearing date the Second day of March One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight lying and being in the County of Shenandoah at the foot and along the side of the little north mountain and bounded as followeth (to wit)

Beginning at a Red Oak a pine and a Chesnut Oak Standing by a branch near the foot of the little north mountain one of his former Corners then with his former lines north forty degrees east two hundred & fifty two poles to a red Oak sapling and a white Oak south fifty degrees east forty four poles to a Locust stake near two Chesnut Oaks then leaving said Hottels former lines north forty eight degrees east forty six poles to a hickory and two black Oak saplings corner to said Syver then running with his line north forty two degrees west eighty poles to three Tall angular hickories corner to said Syver then leaving Syvers line south forty five degrees west two hundred and eighty eight poles to four black oaks south twenty eight degrees west sixty six poles to a double and singles pines by a path south two degrees east thirty to a Chesnut Oak and several marked saplings south forty five degrees east thirty nine poles to a hickory & Red Oak and a Chesnut oak corner to said Hottels former Survey and then with the same north twenty eight degrees east sixty four 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 Hottel & 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 twenty ninth day of October in the year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety nine & of the Commonwealth the twenty fourth.



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