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ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
current money of Virginia, conveyed to Silas Hart, Gentle-
man, first justice "in the Commission of the peace" for Rock-
ingham County, his associate justices, and their successors, a
tract of land containing Two Acres and a Half, for the sole
use and behoof of the said county of Rockingham, upon v/hich
to build the Court House and other public buildings necessary
for the said county. The tract of land in question had lately
been surveyed by Mr. Gawin Hamilton, one of the deputy
surveyors of the county, and was set and bounded as follows:
Beginning at a Cedar Stump near a Small Cedar thence North ten
Degrees East twenty poles to a Stake thence South Eighty degrees East
twenty poles to two Spanish Oak Saplins thence South ten degrees West
Twenty poles to a post thence North Eighty degrees West Twenty Poles
to the Beginning.
At a court held for Rockingham the 23d day of August,
1779, Thomas Harrison acknowledged the deed of bargain and
sale for the lot in question, and the deed was ordered to be
recorded. Teste Peter Hog, C. R. C. The record was made
—in Deed Book No. 0, page 291 one of the volumes that were
partly burned in 1864.
July 26, 1779.
Abraham Smith was sworn in as sheriff of the county,
with John Gratten, Henry Ewing, John Henton, David Ral-
stone, George Chrisman, Francis Kirtly, and Jesse Harrison
as securities. Gawen Hamilton and William Smith were
sworn in as deputy sheriffs.
Francis Mcbride was bound in the sum of £1000, with
James Colhoon and George Chrisman, securities, each in the
sum of £500, to appear before the grand jury in November to
answer the charge of speaking "words disrespectful to the
Government & present Constitution. " John Brown, James
Floyd, and John Hinton were bound, each in the sum of £100,
to appear in person to testify in the case of the said Mc-
2. For a copy of the original deed made by Thomas Harrison to Silas
Hart and others for the county lot, I am indebted to Capt. Geo. G. Grat-
tan, formerly judge of the Rockingham County Court.
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current money of Virginia, conveyed to Silas Hart, Gentle-
man, first justice "in the Commission of the peace" for Rock-
ingham County, his associate justices, and their successors, a
tract of land containing Two Acres and a Half, for the sole
use and behoof of the said county of Rockingham, upon v/hich
to build the Court House and other public buildings necessary
for the said county. The tract of land in question had lately
been surveyed by Mr. Gawin Hamilton, one of the deputy
surveyors of the county, and was set and bounded as follows:
Beginning at a Cedar Stump near a Small Cedar thence North ten
Degrees East twenty poles to a Stake thence South Eighty degrees East
twenty poles to two Spanish Oak Saplins thence South ten degrees West
Twenty poles to a post thence North Eighty degrees West Twenty Poles
to the Beginning.
At a court held for Rockingham the 23d day of August,
1779, Thomas Harrison acknowledged the deed of bargain and
sale for the lot in question, and the deed was ordered to be
recorded. Teste Peter Hog, C. R. C. The record was made
—in Deed Book No. 0, page 291 one of the volumes that were
partly burned in 1864.
July 26, 1779.
Abraham Smith was sworn in as sheriff of the county,
with John Gratten, Henry Ewing, John Henton, David Ral-
stone, George Chrisman, Francis Kirtly, and Jesse Harrison
as securities. Gawen Hamilton and William Smith were
sworn in as deputy sheriffs.
Francis Mcbride was bound in the sum of £1000, with
James Colhoon and George Chrisman, securities, each in the
sum of £500, to appear before the grand jury in November to
answer the charge of speaking "words disrespectful to the
Government & present Constitution. " John Brown, James
Floyd, and John Hinton were bound, each in the sum of £100,
to appear in person to testify in the case of the said Mc-
2. For a copy of the original deed made by Thomas Harrison to Silas
Hart and others for the county lot, I am indebted to Capt. Geo. G. Grat-
tan, formerly judge of the Rockingham County Court.
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