Land Grant
Shadrack Vaughan
County of Kentucky
October 17, 1779
Submitted by Jesse Vaughan


Land Office of Richmond Virginia
(Certified Copy)
 

        Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

To all to whom these Presence shall come, greeting:

       Know ye that in consideration of military service performed during the late war
between Great Britain and France by Shadrach Vaughan, according to the terms of
the King of England’s proclamation of 1763, there is granted by the said commonwealth,
unto the said Shadrach Vaughan a tract of land containing 2,000 acres lying in the county
of Kentucky on the waters of the Elk Horn Creek a north branch of the Kentucky River and
90 miles from the Ohio River:

     Beginning at the two honey locust and a white hickory, corner of William Russell’s land
and north 2,800 poles.  Crossing the creek to a white hickory and elm, then leaving south line
70 degrees and west eight hundred poles, crossing the creek to a white walnut, north 70
degrees west 800 poles to the first station, with these appurtenances, to have and to hold the
said tract to the said Shadrach Vaughan and to his heirs forever.

     In witness thereof the said Thomas Jefferson, Esq. Gov. of Va. hath thereunto set his hand
and seal and caused the lesser seal to be affixed at Williamsburg on the seventeenth day of
October in the year of our lord, 1779.

 

      Land Office, Richmond, Virginia

      I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the record of this office. Within my
      hand and seal of office this 23rd day of April, 1898.

                    (signed)
           John M. Richardson
         Register of Land Office

                                              
 

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