Source: Virginia Land Office Grants Q, 1785, p. 495

Granted to Thomas Bates on June 24, 1785

Assignee of Jacob Hiess [Hice]

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

Survey Date: September 5, 1784

Certificate in Right of Settlement

Beginning at
3 white oaks
on Humphrey Bakers line thence [on my map this tract (E) does not touch the Humphrey Baker tract surveyed on April 9, 1753. However, there may have been adjustments to the Baker tract between 1753 and 1784 which would join these two tracts]
running with John Kirks lines [John Hotton purchased this tract of Kirk's land at a later date]
S 5° E 101 poles [matches John Hotton's line]
to a black oak and white oak
S 58° E 79 poles [matches John Hotton's line]
to a popular
on a ridge
S 61° E 57 poles [matches John Kirks line, 300 acre tract]
to between 3 white oaks
N 70° E 280 poles [matches John Kirks line, 300 acre tract]
to 2 sourwoods and a locust sapling
thence leaving Kirks lines
and running
N 44° W 338 poles [shared line with Jameson, but the Jameson line is only 144 poles long, Jameson shares only the northwestern 144 pole section]
passing Aaron Lewis corner [Aaron Lewis 400 acre tract on Dry Run, tract P on my map - if the Lewis corner is supposed to be on this line, then the outline of the Aaron Lewis tract on my map needs to be moved so that the western most corner touches this line]
to a white oak [the point where Jamesons' line, S 55° W 213 poles, intersects this line]
and from thence
with Jamesons lines [to]
a red oak [matches Jamesons' point, but Jamesons' does not mention that it is "on the side of ridge"]
on the side of ridge
S 54° W 154 poles [matches Jamesons' line]
to a red oak and white oak
by a little spring
S 30° W 60 poles [angle matches Buchannens' line, their line being 80 poles, of which only the southwest 60 poles is shared with Bates' line]
to a black oak, dogwood and white oak
on said Bakers line
and with his lines running [see note about Baker's survey at start of this survey description]
S 70° E 50 poles
to a white oak and 2 hickories
on the side of a ridge thence
S 33° W 29 poles
to the beginning

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

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Jeffrey La Favre - jlafavre@gmail.com