[1714-16 Dec] Land grant to Richard Washington

GEORGE et TO ALL et KNOW YE that for diverse good Causes & Considerations but more especilly for & in Considerastion of the Importacon of three persons to dwell within our Colony of Virga whose names are THOMAS JACKSON, JOHN PROVIN, and DENNIS JACK as also for and in Consideration of the Sum of three pounds for Shillings of good & Lawful money for our use paid to our Receiver General of our Revenues in this our sd Colony & Dominion of Virginia We have Given Granted and Confirmed and by these prsents for us our heirs & Successrs do Give Grant & Confirm unto RICHARD WASHINGTON of the County of Surry one certain Tract or parcel of Land containing Eight hundred & fifty acres lying & being on the South Side of the main black Water Swanp in the County of Isle of Wight and bounded as followeth, to wit, begining at the mouth of a branch on the West Side of Nottoway Swamp (which branch divides his Land from the Land of EDWd GOODSON & MATTw:  RUFFIN) then up the run of that branch to their Corner white oak then South five degrees East twenty three pole to a pine then South fourty nine degrees West too hundred & nineteen pole to a Pine then north thirty eight degrees West sixty one pole to a White oak then north twenty six degrees West thirty one pole to a Pine then East by North Sixty pole to a pine then north forty degree West fifty nine pole to a white oak then north forty six degrees West thirty pole to a red oak then northe fifty three degrees West forty six poles to a red oak then north sixty five degrees West thirty two pole to a hickory then north thirty three degrees West sixty eight pole to a pine then north fourty four degrees West fifty nine pole to a white oak then norty sixty four degrees West Sixty one pole to a hickory a Line tree of Capt RICHARD EXUMS land then by EXUM's Line South fourteen degrees West Eighty six poles to a red oak by Nottoway River & down the various courses of the River to the mouth of Nottoway Swamp & up the run of that swamp to the first Station  WITH ALL eta TO HAVE HOLD & TO BE HELD & YIELDING & PAYING & PROVIDED & IN WITNESS & WITNESS our Trusty and Wellbeloved Alexander Sootswood our Lt Govenr ec att Wm'sburgh under the Seal of our sd Colony the Sixteenth day of December one thousand seven hundred & fourteen in the first year of our Reign

                                                                                                                                 A. Spotswood

                                                                                     VIRGINIA LAND GRANTS, VOLUME 10, PAGE 202