PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu01356::Albemarle County Land Grants)//EN" "viu01356.xml" A Guide to Albemarle Country Land Grants 1770, 1846Albermarle County, Virginia 11285Special Collections Staff Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library © 2001 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word 2000, created by Sue Cuthbertson, 4/5/2001 Description is in English Feb 18, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu01356::Albemarle County Land Grants)//EN" "viu01356.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to Albemarle County Land Grants 1770, 1846 A Collection in The Special Collections Department 11285

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 2001 Special Collections Department Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Descriptive Summary Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Albemarle County Land Grants 1770, 1846 11285 Two items. English The collection consists of a 1770 land patent from George III to Joseph Hawkins for 370 acres on both sides of Moorman's River, Albermarle County, and a 1846 land grant from Governor William Smith to Garland T. Brown for 18 acres on the north side of Buck's Elbow and Moorman's River. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Albermarle County, Va., land grants, 1770, 1846, Accession #11285, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

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These land grants were given to the Library on January 18, 1997 by Richard C. Sartor of Buckeye, Arizona, with the knowledge and consent of his mother, Viola Mortera, his brother, Gary Sartor, and sister, Cynthia Turner.

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There are two grants, 1770 and 1846, pertaining to land in Albemarle County, Virginia. There is a land patent, August 27, 1770, by which George the Third of Great Britain, France, and Ireland did grant and confirm unto Joseph Hawkins a tract or parcel of land containing three hundred and seventy acres lying and being in Albemarle County on both sides of Moorman's River and bounded by lines including those of William Shelton and William McCord. The patent is signed by Botetourt [Norborne Berkeley (1718-1770)], governor of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia. There is also a land grant, June 30, 1846, by which William Smith, governor of Virginia, did grant unto Garland T. Brown a tract or parcel of land eighteen acres on the north side of Buck's Elbow and waters of Moorman's River in Albemarle County.