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Land Grant book, Page 425

Washington County Courthouse, Abingdon, Virginia

Surveyed for John Fleming Twenty three thousand Seven hundred and fifty five acres of land in Washington County by virtue of a Virginia Land office Treasury Warrant No. 1184 and dated the 14^th day of Feby. 1795 lying on the waters of the North Fork of Holstein & Clinch Rivers, excluding Four hundred acres, appropriated in the following manner, viz – John Gobble 100 Acres by survey lying in the Poor Valley:  Jacob Goble fifty acres by entry in said Valey: Frederick Goble 50 Acres by entry in Little Mocoson gap:  James Fuller 200 acres by entry in Grumley Cove and bounded as followeth, viz:  beginning on the west side of Little Mocason Gap at an ash, sugartree, buckeye on the east side of steep spurs from thence with said lines S31E666 poles crossing several branches to forked chestnut & chestnut oak on the top of a ridge:  S15W60 poles to a black oak & dogwood, thence leaving said lines; N77E758 poles crossing Little Mockingson Creek to a black oak & maple corner to Frederick Gobble’s land; N69E385 poles crossing several branches to a poplar & white oak corner to Crump’s land:  N56W58 poles to a poplar in a hollow corner to Garits land; N14W290 poles to two white oaks a dogwood & maple on the east side of a stoney holow:  N57E3030 poles crossing several branches of Woolf Creek to two white oaks & a double chesnut on a top of a spur; N65E582 poles crossing several branches of Tumbling Creek to three dogwoods & a maple sapling: N43W500 poles crossing a Creek to a white oak on a ridge: S66W4434 poles crossing many branches of the waters of Clinch River to a white oak from thence N[S]6W[E]480 poles crossing a Branch of Little Mockingson Creek to the first station.

April 18^th 1795                                                    Walter Preston Asst.

                                                                                    Robt. Preston S. W. C.

The last course above ought to be S6E.

                                                                                    Robt. Preston, S. W. C.

Notes:  John Fleming is not a relative of ours as far as I know but I wanted this initial survey for the land patent that was the first transfer of the property in Moccasin Gap to a private citizen.  This is only one of many patents issued to John Fleming who wound up with over 100,000 acres in this region.  I haven’t determined if he was just rich or if he was some sort of Revolutionary War hero who was given military bounty land.

 This particular patent was referred to in a deed that I transcribed from my prior visit to Abingdon dated August 16, 1830.  In that deed, John Phelps is buying 25 acres from Alexander Henry and James Boggs.  These men had acquired the land from John Fleming in 1796 and were selling it off.  They actually lived in Philadelphia and New York and were not from the area.

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