Sources:
1) Virginia Land Office Grants No. 12, 1787, p. 160
2) Washington County Surveyors Record 1781 - 1797, page 29, microfilm reel #34, Library of Virginia

Abstract of grant with additions from survey

Granted to Jonathan Cunningham on June 13, 1787

[According to "Geographical Sketch of the Meek Neighborhood, 1772-1839" p. 23, publication Series II, No. 10 and 11, September 1973, The Historical Society of Washington County, VA, this tract was named "Big Spring Branch". The tract sketch is labeled with the following names: Geo. Hice - 1775, Jonathan Cunningham (no date - should be 1782?), Joseph Meek, Sr. - 1782 (should be 1787?). The following homes were located on this tract: Joseph Meek Sr., Joseph Meek Jr., James Meek. In the same publication, in the article entitled "The Meeks and their Neighbors," - "...Joseph Meek, Sr. purchased 400 acres for two hundred and fifty dollars from Jonathan Cunningham in 1787..." and "Joseph Meek owned this tract until his death, except for 22 acres which he had sold to his son Joseph, Jr., and 10 acres to his son James. This was in 1793. These two tracts were on the Northwest corner of the land which was situated along The Great Road." and "By March 1810 Joseph Meek, Sr. had died. By order of the Court a partition was made of his land. The partitions were 28 1/2 poles wide, running north to south. These were drawn by lot by the heirs who were: James, Jesse, Joseph, Jr., Charles, Stephen, Hannah, who married Adam Starns and Polly who married Francis Keys and Grace, who married George Dungan."]

400 acres in Washington County, VA on the waters of the Middle fork of Holstein River

Certificate in Right of Settlement

[certificate incorporated into survey record:...George Hice is entitled to four hundred acres of land in Washington County lying on big Spring branch, 205 acres of which was surveyed for the said George Hice June 7, 1774, ...to include his improvement he having proved to the Court that he was entitled to the same by actual settlement in 1775. ... I do hereby assign all my right of the within certificate to Jonathan Cunningham for value received of him the 10th of June 1782. George Hice]

Survey Date: June 22, 1782 [surveyed for Jonathan Cunningham]

Beginning at a white oak and gum sapling
a corner to John Starnes survey
and with his several lines [four lines]
N 55° W 68 poles [matches John Starnes line]
to a large white oak
W 63 poles [matches John Starnes line]
to 2 white oaks
N 11° E 36 poles [matches John Starnes line]
to 2 red oaks
N 71° W 103 poles [matches John Starnes line, except his is 102 poles]
to a white oak
on Thompsons line
and with said line
leaving Starnes line and running
N 98 poles [line shared with James Thompson, I don't have survey data of Thompson's tract]
to 2 white oaks
N 58° E 14 poles [matches John Kirk's line]
leaving Thompsons line
to a black oak and white oak
N 15° E 52 poles [matches John Kirk's line]
to a parcel of white oaks
N 73° E 100 poles [angle matches Aaron Lewis's line, Lewis's line 81 poles; angle matches John Kirks line, Kirks line 19 poles, therefore Lewis's + Kirk's lines add up to Cunningham's line]
to 3 white oak saplings in the glade
S 49° E 13 poles [matches Aaron Lewis's line]
to a white oak
by the path that leads to Lewis's
S 63° E 58 poles [matches Abraham Lefever's line]
to 3 white oaks
E 51 poles [matches Abraham Lefever's line]
to 2 white oaks
by the main road
N 80° E 30 poles [matches Abraham Lefever's line]
to a black oak and white oak
by the said road
S 23° E 26 poles [matches Abraham Lefever's line]
to 3 white oaks
S 35° E 98 poles [matches Abraham Lefever's line]
to 2 black oaks and a white oak
above the Dutch Meeting House
S 130 poles [matches Abraham Lefever's line]
to a white oak
on Thompsons line thence
S 74° W 117 poles [line shared with James Thompson, I don't have survey data of Thompson's tract]
to the beginning

[text in brackets added by J. La Favre, 2008 and 2009]

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