File:Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants, Northern Neck Grants and Surveys, Patents E 1775-1776,1780-1781 (VOL.1 & VOL.2), page 650.tif

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Obtained from the Online Catalog of the Library of Virginia.

Lower Record

The lower record of the page, which continues on the next page, records the granting of land, then in Pittsylvania County (now Henry County), Virginia, to George Reives on the 1st of Sep 1780. In the description, the land is mentioned as being adjacent to a piece of land owned by William Cox.

Metadata regarding said record is recorded in the catalog as follows:

Format	BK
Leader	01276 tda 2200253za 4500
Date & Time Last Tr	20010701161439.0
Fixed-Length Field	010413e17800901vau           000   eng d
Cataloging Source	 VIC VIC
ME-Personal Name	 Reives, George. grantee.
Title	 Land grant 1 September 1780.
Summary, Etc.	   Location: Henry County.
Add.Phys.Form Note	   Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Grants A-Z, 1-124, reels 42-190; Virginia State Land Office. Grants 125- , reels 369-.
Summary, Etc.	   Description: 106 acres on Smiths River adjoining the land of William Cox.
Summary, Etc.	   Source: Land Office Patents E, 1775-1776, 1780-1781 (v.2 p.463-930), p. 650 (Reel 46).
Summary, Etc.	   Part of the index to the recorded copies of grants issued by the Virginia Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.
Subject-Name	 Reives, George. grantee.
Subject	 Land titles. -- Registration and transfer -- Virginia -- Henry County
Subject-Geographic	 Henry County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century.
Index Term-Genre/Fo	 Land grants -- Virginia -- Henry County.
Subject-Name	 Cox, William.
Added Corporate	 Virginia. Land Office. Register. Land grants, 1779-
Added Corporate	 Library of Virginia. Archives.
Electronic Location	http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=650&last=&g_p=PE&collection=LO ;  Grant ; 
Local Note	 ARC LAN
SRC	 LVA01 clas30.aa
Sys.No.	000812944

Transcription of Lower Record

Thomas Jefferson Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to all to whom these presents shall come greeting: Know ye that in consideration of the ancient composition of fifteen shillings sterling paid by George Reives into the treasury of this commonwealth there is granted by the said commonwealth unto the said George Reives a certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred and six acres by survey bearing date the thirteenth day of December one thousand seven hundred and seventy three, sixty two acres part thereof being formerly surveyed for Christopher Bolling the Right and title of which has since become vested in the said George Reives. Lying and being in the county of Henry formerly Pittsylvania on both sides of Smith's River and bounded as followeth, to wit, Beginning at William Cox's [?] Chesnut tree on the south side of the River thence along his lines West thirty four poles to a Chesnut tree: thence new lines North twenty eight degrees West