James Tredway Grant – 1780
Donated by Randy Treadway
Land Office Grants A, 1779-1780 (v.1 & 2 p.1-685), p. 514
Halifax Co., Virginia
Thomas Jefferson Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting: Know ye that in consideration of the Ancient Compensation of Forty Shillings sterling paid by James Tredway into the Treasury of this Commonwealth there is Granted by the said Commonwealth unto the said James Tredway a Certain tract or parcel of Land Containing by Survey bearing date the thirteenth day of October one Thousand Seven Hundred and fifty three Four Hundred acres lying and being in the County of Halifax on both sides of Brush Creek and Bounded as followeth, To Wit, Beginning at Thomas Dandy’s corner hickory thence along his lines South thirty eight degrees East One hundred and thirty six Poles to a small white oak South sixty three degrees West one hundred and Sixteen Poles to Pointers new lines North Sixty eight degrees West forty Poles to an ash in a Branch thence down the same as it Meanders to the Mouth of and down the Creek to a Beach thence off North sixty four degrees West forty Six Poles to a Pine North Eleven degrees East two hundred and forty Six Poles to Pointers North Seventy degrees East two hundred and forty Six Poles Crossing two forks of the said Creek to a Red Oak South twelve East one hundred and fifty two Poles to the Beginning with its appurtenances to have and to hold the said Tract or Parcel of Land with its appurtenances to the said James Tredway and his Heirs forever. In Witness whereof the said Thomas Jefferson Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto Set his hand and Caused the Seal of the Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the thirteenth day of June in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty and of the Commomwealth the fourth.
Thos Jefferson