DOUGLASS Cassandra

Notes:

VA Grants 73, p. 524
Library of Virginia Digital Collection:
Land Office Patents and Grants
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Cassandra Davisson
& others
4408 acs
Harrison
Exd.
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James Pleasants Esq[ui]re Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia: To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Know Ye, That in conformity with a Survey made on the eighteenth day of October 1798, by virtue of two Land Office Treasury Warrants, to wit: 3000 acres by No. 21,266 & 1408, by No. 21,265 both issued December 13 - 1783 there is granted by the said Commonwealth, unto Cassandra Davisson (wife of Daniel Davisson, Jr., late Cassandra Douglass) Hannah Gallion (wife of Nathan B. Gallion, late Hannah Douglass) Sarah Davisson (wife of Wm. Davission, late Sarah Douglass) and Mary Douglass children & heirs of [-s.?] Douglass decd. ~ A certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing Four thousand four hundred and eight acres, included in an entry of 8000 acres made Decr. 22 1788, for the said Thomas Douglass, situate in the County of Harrison on the waters of Ohio and Little Kanawha Rivers, and bounded as followeth to wit: beginning at a hickory the third corner to Samuel [----son’s] first survey; thence with a line of the same North 1436 poles, crossing Worthington's creek to a pile of stones, corner to a survey of 400 acres made for Daniel Henrie, thence with the reverse of a line thereof N70?W 370 poles to a post; thence S140 poles to a white oak; N68?W 725 poles to three white oaks; S8?W284 poles to a white oak, S32?E 179 poles to a white oak S3?W 179 poles to a post, N82?W 179 poles to a white oak, S8?W[5?]37 poles to two white oaks, S65[,?]E24 poles to a post N12?E 370 poles to a post; S66?E 400 poles to a hickory, S82?E 178 poles to a hickory, S44?E 550 poles to a white oak, & thence S18?E 400 poles to the beginning To have and to hold the said Tract or Parcel of Land with its appurtenances, to the said Cassandra Davisson, Hannah Gallion, Sarah Davisson & Mary Douglass, children & heirs of Th Douglass decd. and their heirs forever. In witness whereof, the said James Pleasants Esq[ui]re Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his Hand, and caused the lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond, on the sixteenth day of Feby in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five and of the Commonwealth the forty ninth ~ James Pleasants

Cassandra married DAVISSON Daniel on 15 Oct 1810 in Harrison Co., WV. Daniel (son of Sr. Josiah Davisson and HERRON Virginia Edith) was born on 08 Nov 1772 in Rockingham Co., VA; died in MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. DAVISSON Ann was born on 24 Aug 1812.
2. DAVISSON Thomas was born on 14 Nov 1813.
3. DAVISSON Edith was born on 15 Feb 1816.
4. DAVISSON Rowenna was born on 03 Mar 1818.
5. DAVISSON Sarah was born on 08 Oct 1822.