SEPTEMBER 20 1816
GRANT TO JOHN MILLER

"...in the County of Shenandoah at the blue-ridge..."
*NOTE: Transcribed from the original document as written



Wilson Cary Nicholas 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 the 10th day of November 1814; by virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant No. 4813, issued the 18th day of January 1812 There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto John Miller, A certain Tract or parcel of Land containing Ninety four and a half acres, situate (sic) in the County of Shenandoah at the blue-ridge and bounded as followeth to wit:

Beginning at a chesnut Oak, corner to said Millers other Land also corner to Peter and Abraham Prince's land and extending thence with their lines, South five and a half degrees, East eighty nine poles to a chesnut Oak and a smaller pine, thence South seventy eight degrees, East fifty one poles to a chesnut Oak on a ridge thence South one degree, west one hundred and twenty four poles to a chesnut Oak by two large rocks in said Prince's line, also in a line fo George Hetticks big survey, thence with the same North thirty three degrees East one hundred and twenty one poles to a chesnut and red Oak on the long ridge; thence North twenty one degrees, West two hundred and two poles to two pines and a chesnut Oak, thence leaving said Hetticks survey, South seventy seven degrees, West fifteen poles to a black Oak in a line of said Miller's other land and thence with the same, South twenty eight degrees East sixty eight poles to the beginning:

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

In witness whereof the said Wilson C. Nicholas Esq. 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 twentieth Day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen and of the Commonwealth the forty first.

W.C. Nicholas



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