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GEORGE the Third TO ALL KNOW YE that for divers good causes and
considerations but more especially for and in consideration of the sum of TWENTY
FIVE SHILLINGS of good and lawful money for our use paid to our Receiver General
of our Revenues in this our Colony and Dominion of Virginia WE HAVE given granted
and confirmed and by these presents for us our Heirs and Successors Do give grant
and confirm unto John Finley one certain Tract or parcel of Land containing two
hundred thirty eight Acres lying and being in the County of Augusta on a Branch
of the middle River of Shanando joining to the land he lives on; and bounded as
followeth, to wit, BEGINNING at a white oak by a draft a corner of his other Land
and North thirty degrees West one hundred and thirty poles to a white oak and
black oak on a ridge thence North fifty two degrees West forty eight poles to two
Hickories and white oak by a draft thence South West forty two poles to a white
oak by said draft and thence South twenty one degrees West one hundred and fifty
four poles to a pine and white oak on Limestone ridge South sixty nine degrees
East twelve poles to two white oaks and black oak saplins thence South twenty one
degrees West one hundred and thirty poles to a pine on a high ridge thence South
thirty six degrees East one hundred poles to near a black oak and North forty
degrees East fifty four poles to a white oak a corner of his old Survey and North
thirty five degrees East two hundred and thirty two poles with said line to the
beginning WITHALL (?) TO HAVE HOLD (?) TO BE HELD (?) YIELDING (?) PAYING (?)
PROVIDED (?) IN WITNESS (?) WITNESS our trusty and well beloved John Blair
esquire President of our Council and Commander in Chief of our said Colony and
Dominion at Williamsburg under the seal of our said Colony the twentieth day of
July one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight In the eighth year of our Reign.
Examd. John Blair
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