Records of Deeds for West Augusta, \'ir(;ixia. 299 



I>edford County ss 



Before me John Fraser Esquire one of his Majestys Justices 

 of the peace & for the County aforesaid personally ap])eared 

 (47) the above named Benjamin Tate and acknowledged the above 

 Indenture to be his Act and Deed and desired the same may 

 be recorded as such In Witness whereof I have hereunto set 

 my hand and seal this thirteenth day of October 1772 



John Fraser [F S] 



Entered in the Office for Recording of Deeds in and for the 

 County of Bedford in liook A Page 35 the twenty fourth day 

 of December Anno Dom 1772 Witness my hand and seal of 

 my office aforesaid 



A^ S' Clair. 



At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 

 Dunmore May 20th 1775. 



This Mortage from Benjamin Tate to John Campbell Gent 

 was produced and Ordered to be recorded 



Test. 



Examined AND Delivered I do hereby cer- 



John Campbell Oct 1775 tify that Peter 



McGachney is in- 

 tituled to fifty Acres of Fand agreeable to his Majestys Proc- 

 lamation in the year 1763. And being desirous to locate the 

 same in the County of Augusta if he can lay it on any Vacant 

 Fands that has not been Surveyed by Order of Council & pat- 

 tented since the above proclamation you are hereby Authorised 

 and required to survey the same — Given under my hand 

 and seal this 24th day of September 1774 



Dunmore [F S] 



To the Surveyor of Augusta County 



Entered in the Surveyors Office the 17th May 1775 ^^^ 

 requested to be located by the Assignee on his Improvements 

 at y' fort of Grants hill Pittsburg 

 To Major Crawford ' to Execute Thos Fewis, SAC'' 



'This was Col. Wm. Crawford, burned at the stake by the Indians in 17S2. 

 2 Surveyor of Augusta County, N'irginia. 



