** Grant of Thomas Meador:
The 450 Acre Grant - "To all to whom these presents shall come,
Greetings;...now know ye that I, the said Sir William Berkeley, Knight, Governor
of Virginia, give and grant unto Thomas Meader, Orphan, four hundred and fifty
acres of land in Lancaster County on the South side of the head of Hoskins
Creek, beginning at a poplar standing by the side of a Beaver Dam near the
Indian Path and running South by West two hundred and fifty poles, thence
parallel to the Dam West by North four hundred and fifty poles (part of the
description left out here) to the Dam to the first mentioned tree. The said land
being first granted to Thomas Browning by patent dated the thirtieth of
November, one thousand six hundred and fifty seven, and by him assigned to John
Cooke, and by him assigned to Thomas Meader Deceased, and by his will given to
the said Thomas Meader. To have and to hold (etc.) Dated the ninth of April, one
thousand, six hundred and sixty four."