LAND GRANT COMMONWEALTH OF VA TO ROBERT BARTLETT Harrison Co., VA (WVA) Oct. 4, 1796 Virginia Land Grants and Patents, Grants 35, Page 714 Robert BARTLETT, 400 acres, Harrison Co., VA WVA Oct 4, 1796. Robert BROOKE Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Know ye, that by virtue of a pre-emption Warrant Number twelve hundred and ninety-nine issued the seventeenth day of March one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Robert BARTLETT, a certain tract or parcel of land containing four hundred acres by survey bearing date twentieth day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety five lying and being in the County of Harrison on the head waters of the Right hand fork of LAMBERTs Run, and is bounded as followeth, to wit, Beginning at a maple on a line of Thomas BARTLETTs and running thence West one hundred an fifty two poles to a Chesnut Oak and South thirty eight degrees West one hundred and forty nine poles to a hickory South Sixty degrees West fifty poles to a dogwood, South seven degrees West ninety poles to a Chesnut South thirty four degrees East one hundred and eighty poles to two chesnut oaks, South thirty seven and a half degrees East two hundred and eighty three poles to pointers North nine and three quarter degrees East one hundred and sixty? 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 Robert BARTLETT and his Heirs forever. In witness whereof, the said Robert BROOKE Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath here unto set his mark and caused the lessees seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the fourth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety six and of the commonwealth the twenty first. Robert BROOKE