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From: Carol Urban <>
Subject: [PACK-L] Benjamin Pack - 100 Acres - Botetourt Co., VA - 1787 (who is he?)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:27:06 -0400

I know I posted this before but I don't think I got any responses so I'm
going to post it again. Please look at this grant and let me know if
you have any idea who this Benjamin Pack might be.

Thanks! Carol
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BENJAMIN PACK - 100 acres - BOTETOURT CO., VA

Beverly Randolph Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, To all to whom these presents come, Greetings: Know ye that
in consideration of the ancient composition of ten shillings sterling
paid by BENJAMIN PACK unto the Treasury of the Commonwealth there is
granted by the said Commonwealth unto said BENJAMIN PACK, assignee of
Colonel William Flemming, a certain tract or parcel of land, containing
one hundred acres, by survey bearing date the twenty first day of May,
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Five, lying and being in the
County of Botetourt on the waters of Looneys Creek a branch of James
River joining the land of Hugh McNeil and the land of Robert Montgomery
and Patrick Sharkey and his own land and bounded as followeth, to wit.
Beginning at two white oaks corner to said Sharkey and Montgomery land
and runneth north eighty degrees past one hundred and forty four poles
to two white oaks and black oak, north five degrees past one hundred and
forty eight poles to two black oaks, north twenty degrees, east to a
white oak and black oak saplings in a hollow corner to Hugh McNeil and
with his line, south twenty degrees, east one hundred and four poles to
two black oaks on a ridge, thence south twenty nine degrees, (can’t make
out this word) forty poles to two large white oaks corner to his own
land, south twenty degrees, west one hundred and fifty two poles to
white oaks on a ridge, thence north eight degrees, east two hundred
poles to the beginning with its appurtenances. To have and to hold the
said tract of land with its appurtenances to the said BENJAMIN PACK and
his HEIRS forever. In witness whereof, the said Beverly Randolph
Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath
hereunto set his hand, and caused the lesser seal of the said
Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond, on the tenth day of July in the
year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Seven and of the
Commonwealth the twelfth.

Beverly Randolph
(his signature)

Grant Book No. 13
1787
Pgs 234 - 235
Carol Pack Urban, Submitter
1-20-1999

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