LAND GRANT COMMONWEALTH OF VA TO THOMAS BARTLETT Harrison County, VA (WVA) Oct. 3, 1796 Virginia Land Grants and Patents, No. 36, Pg 163. 1796-97 Thomas BARTLETT - 210 acres - 3 Oct 1796 - Harrison Co., VA WVA Robert BROOKE Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to all to Whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by virtue of part 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 Thomas BARTLETT a certain tract or parcel of land containing two hundred and ten acres by Survey bearing date the twentieth day of June one thousand seven hundred ninety five lying and being in the County of Harrison on the West side of the West fork and is bounded as followeth, to wit, Beginning at a Burch? and running thence South forty seven degrees West two hundred and three poles to a Poplar and two white oaks, South fifty five degrees West one hundred and sixty seven poles to a white oak, South fifty degrees East one hundred and forty poles to a hickory, North fifty degrees East fourteen poles to a white oak, North thirty degrees East twenty two poles to a black oak Joshua ALLENs corner, thence by a cue of his, North fifty three degrees East forty two poles to a black oak, thence North sixty degrees West twenty eight poles to a hickory, North forty seven degrees East two hundred and eight poles to an oak Job WALTONs corner North eighteen degrees West twenty poles to the bank of said fork thence down the same with its meander ninety five poles to an oak thence North sixty seven degrees West fifty four 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 Thomas BARTLETT and his heirs forever. In witness whereof the said Robert BROOKE esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and caused the leser Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the third 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