Henry Lee Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, To all to whom these presents shall come greetings; Know ye, that by virtue of a Land Office treasury Warrant Number eight thousand four hundred and twenty nine issued the fourth day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto David Curnute a certain tract or parcel of lan containing two hundred acres by Survey hearing date the twentyninth day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine, lying and being in the County of Montgomery on the south side of _______ fork of Elk Creek and bounded as followeth to wit, Beginning at a white oak a corner of William Ewings Survey and with the same North ten degrees West forty poles to a poplar, North thirteen degrees East eighty six poles to two white oaks then leaving the said line, East one hundred and thirty poles to a Chesnut by a path, south seventy nine degrees, East seventy four poles to a Chestnut in the gap of a ridge, South forty one degrees, East seventy eight poles to two black oaks on a ridge, South thirty seven degrees, West forty six poles to two chesnuts on a ridge, North eighty five degrees, West seventy eight poles to three chesnuts on a ridge, South one hundred and sixteen poles to a chesnut, South Seventy nine degrees, West twenty six poles to a chesnut on the end of a ridge and north fifty two degrees, West one hundred and seventy two poles to the ____. Beginning with the appurtenances: To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of Land with its appurtenances, to the said David Curnute and his heirs for ever. In Witness wherof the said Henry Lee Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his hand and caused the _____ seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond, on the Second day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three; and of the Commonwealth the Seventeenth.
HENRY LEE
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