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Source: Virginia Land Office
Grants Q, 1785, p. 386
Granted to Philip Grever
on July 5, 1785
[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". The tract sketch
is labeled with the following name: Philip Griever 400A - 1793. In the
same publication, in the article entitled "The Meeks and their Neighbors,"
- "South of the Greiver tract was the Ebbing Spring on the Middle
Fork of the Holston River. This became the site of the old Ebbing Spring
Presbyterian Church built two hundred years ago. Later this church was
moved to Old Glade Spring."]
400 acres in Washington County,
VA on the waters of the Middle fork of Holstein River
Certificate in Right of Settlement
Survey Date: June 5, 1782
Beginning at a
large white oak
a corner to James Thompsons old patented tract
thence running with a line thereof
S 15° E 240 poles [line shared with James Thompson, I don't
have survey data of Thompson's tract]
to a parcel of white oak saplings
S 6° W 176 poles [line shared with James Thompson, I don't
have survey data of Thompson's tract]
to a poplar
near the said old line
thence leaving the old line and running
N 77° W 112 poles [I have not identified any adjacent tract
to this line at this time]
to a Spanish oak and 2 poplars
by a parcel of ?
N 30° W 180 poles [I have not identified any adjacent tract
to this line at this time]
to between 3 Spanish oaks
N 24° E 238 poles [I have not identified any adjacent tract
to this line at this time]
to 2 white oaks
N 39° E 149 poles [I have not identified any adjacent tract
to this line at this time]
to a white oak
S 34° E 86 poles [angle matches John Kirk's line, his line
104 poles, remaining 18 poles apparently not shared with another tract,
at NW end of 104 poles is located John Bates (Batie) corner - see
also John Hotton grant - have not been able to find grant to John
Bates yet]
to a large walnut
on a line of Thompsons said tract
and with said line
S 71° W 71 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]
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to map
Jeffrey La Favre - jlafavre@gmail.com
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