Washington
Co. VA 27 December 1785
Patrick
Henry Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all to whom these
presents shall come Greeting Know ye: that by virtue ? in Consideration of a
Land Office Treasury Warrant number ______ and ? the _______ day of ______ there
is granted by the said Commonwealth, unto Enos Browning a certain tract or
parcel of Land. Containing one hundred and twenty two acres by survey bearing
date the eleventh day of March one thousand seven hundred and eighty three,
lying and being in the county of Washington on both sides of the north and south
fork of Cedar Creek a branch of Clinch River and bounded as followeth, To Wit;
Beginning at a large white oak on the north side of the North Branch of the
Creek a corner of Thomas Hendricks Land and with a line of the same south thirty
three degrees East seventy nine poles crossing two creeks to a beech and Sugar
tree by the south branch of said creek. South fifty four degrees west forty four
poles leaving said land and crossing said creek twice to tow dogwoods and a
beech sapling a corner of said Brownings land he lives on and with a line of the
same north forty seven degrees west two hundred and seventy nine poles crossing
two creeks to two poplars and a white oak sapling on the top of a ridge north
forty two degrees east eighty eight poles to two dogwoods on the top of said
ridge. South forty one degrees east two hundred and fifteen poles crossing the
spurs of said ridge to the Beginning with its appurtenances; To have and to hold
the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said Enos
Browning and his heirs forever. In Witness whereof the said Patrick Henry
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
twenty seventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and eighty five and of the Commonwealth the tenth.