SEPTEMBER 22 1829
GRANT TO JACOB W. MILLER

"...in the County of Shenandoah about two miles south west of Woodstock..."
*NOTE: Transcribed from the original document as written



William B. Giles Esq. 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 sixteenth day of August 1828; by virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant No. 7851 issued January 29th 1825; there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Jacob W. Miller, a certain Tract or parcel of Land containing sixteen and a half acres, situate (sic) in the County of Shenandoah about two miles south west of Woodstock and bounded as followeth to wit:

Beginning at two pines (formerly three) an old corner to the land said Miller bought of William Masons heirs and extending thence with a line fo the same S 51 1/2 degrees W. 85 poles to a hickory and white oak a corner to the said Mason's Tract and to the land of Joseph Freed in Jacob Rinkers line thence with Rinkers line S 7 degrees E. 62 poles to a station in a field where a hickory sapling formerly stood between two pines corner to the land of Daniel Hisey thence with Hiseys lines S 19 degrees W 3 poles to a pine, thence N. 87 degrees E. 14 poles to a stone and three pine stumps said Hiseys corner by a sink hole and also a corner to Jacob Rinkers late survey, and thence with said Rinkers line N 5 1/4 degrees W. 79 poles to the beginning

To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of Land, with its appurtenances to the said Jacob W. 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 twenty second day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, and of the Commonwealth the fifty fourth.

Wm. B. Giles



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