Land Grant for JOSEPH PREAST - 17 May 1803
Bedford County, Virginia
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Joseph Preast - 300 acres - Bedford
John Page esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to all to whom these presents shall
come greeting, know ye that the virtue of two land office treasury warrants to wit, fifty acres by number
two thousand four hundred issued the twenty sixth day of January one thousand seven hundred and
ninety eight, and two hundred and fifty acres by number seven hundred and sixty eight issued the ninth
day of October, seventeen hundred and ninety four. There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto
Joseph Preast a (?Contaur?) tract or parcel of land containing three hundred acres by survey bearing
date the fifth day of May, Eighteen hundred and one, lying and being in the County of Bedford on both
sides of Beaver dam Creek and bordered (bounded) as followeth, "to wit". Beginning at Trents corner
pointers thence along his lines south twenty degrees west on hundred Poles to a red oak south, seventy
three degrees east sixty poles to a pine south forty degrees west fifty five poles to a pine - north fifty seven
degrees west eighty poles to a pine thence new lines south forty degrees west twenty poles to a chestnut
oak south sixty four degrees west twenty one poles to pointers in Eckolos's line thence along the lines south
twenty five degrees west seventy two poles to pointers south forty nine degrees west thirty nine poles croping
Beaver dam Creek to a lo crest north sixty degrees west, forty six poles to a pine south ten degrees east fifty
eight to a red oak south thirty degrees east fifty three poles to a pine north eighty seven degrees east fifty eight
poles to a north eighty seven degrees east fifty eight poles to a poplar on said creek, thence down the creek
as it meanders south sixty six degrees east twenty two poles to a spanich oak, in Samuel James's lined thence
along his lines north forty two degrees east forty four poles to a dead pine east sixty poles to a box white oak in
Blankenships line and along his lines north thirty degrees west thirty one poles to a chestnut oak north,
twenty three degrees east one hundred and two poles to pointers in Balloways and Cavanaughs line and
thence along their line north thirteen degrees west two hundred and twenty 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
Joseph Preast and his heirs forever, in witness where of the said John Page esquire Governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia both here unto set his hand and caused the lesser seal of the said commonwealth to
be affixed at Richmond on the seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and
three and of the Commonwealth the twenty seventh.
JOHN
PAGE
(Written
to side - Grant delivered J. Leftwich - 5 Jany 1807)
Preast,
Joseph
17 May 1803
Bedford
County
300
a. On both sides of Beaverdam Creek
Grants 51, 1802-03, p. 296