James Dowden Land Grant
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James Dowden 100 Acres Montgomery Grants 31 pgs. 320-321 |
Robert Brooke 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 Twelve thousand five hundred and one, ___ is granted by this said Commonwealth
unto James Dowden Asignee of John Toney Asignee of Martha Gatliff a certain Tract
or parcel of Land Containing one hundred acres by survey bearing date the third day of
May, one thousand and seven hundred and eighty six Lying and being in the County of
Montgomery
on the west side of new River and Known by the name of the round Bottom, and
bounded as followth
to wit Beginning at white oak and ash on the river bank and up the same South four degrees
East Fifty poles to a Hickory and up the river and South twenty five degrees west, Twenty poles
to a
walnut, North sixty four degrees west, Thirty two poles to a Hickory crossing a branch, South
Sixty
five degrees West, Sixty four poles to a White Oak, South Twenty five degrees West, Forty poles
to a White Oak, North Seventy five degrees West Ninety poles to a Poplar on a ridge, North
thirty two degrees West Forty poles to a White Oak, North Forty five degrees East Eighty poles
to a red Oak, South Eighty degrees East One hundred and sixty poles to the Beginning With its
app__tinances, to the said James Dowden and his heirs forever. In Witness
Whereof
the said Robert Brooke, 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
third day of February in the year of Our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and ninety five
and of the Commonwealth the nineteenth.
Transcribed by Ran Raider from original document. 10/27/98 |