The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-12-29
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To the honorahic James Madifon, Albert GaIlatin
aud Lew Lincoln, efqs. coinmiiioners on the prat
oil the United States, for treating with comniiiion-
ers appointed by the fate of Georgia, &C. &c.
he fnbicrihers a.ternies &C E;.gi. poEe and
entine Jones, eiq of Great Britain, RESPECTFULLY re-
prelent.
That in purfuance of an act of the general sGem-
bly, OF the fate OF Georgia paled on the 7th day OF
January III the year of our lord 1895, entitled, an
act supplementary to a8 for appropr atine part
OF the INDICATED territory of this fate, for the pay
ent OF the fate troops and for other purpofes there
IN mentioned and declaring the right of this itate to
the inappropriate territory thereof, for the prote6t
on and iuPpor o. the frontiers of this fate and for o.
Their PurPoies therein mentioned" George Matthews
then governor OF the ate under the great zeal of the
iame did on the thirteenth day of January of the
lame year, give and grant unto James Gunn Matthew
M'Allifter and George Walker and their alIocia,e.
called the Georgia company, their heirs and aiiigns
orevera certain tract Of country decrbed in the deed
an exenphed copy OF which is depofited in the Office
OF your honors and by other deed under the GREAT
lea OF the fame fate, did the fifteenth day of Ian
uary 1873, grant unto John B. Scett, John C. Nigh
tengale and Wade Hampton, under the yle and title
OF the Upper Mliilippi company, one other tract of
land dettribed in the deed likeiie depoited in your
Office
That Wade Hampton being one of the alIociates in
the laid Georgia company, and James Gum one OF
the grantees under them FOOD fezed as tenants in COM
mon, in fee fnplc of the following delcribed .ra4
being part Of that granted to the Georgia company
that IS to lay beginning the river Milippi where
the latitude OF thirty-three degrees, twenty minutes
north OF the equator interleSts the fame therein run
ming due eat coure 10y land conveyed by the fad
Georgia company to James Greenleal) to the main
Tom Bigby river, thence up the ftid river to where
he parallel Of latitude thirty-three degrees twenty
y he faid
due wet courie along the iaid parallel, being the
diitsnce Of twentyfour Britih hatute miles as sfore
laid, north Of the latitude of thrty-three degrees
twenty minutes to the river MliIbppi, thence down
the MiliiliPPi to the place Of beginning.
That the laid Wade Hampton ltandng leized ofthe
one equal moiety thereof, and Janes Gum of the O.
Their hall, the iaid Wade Hampton and James Gum
on the fourth day Of February, 1897, fold to Hugh
Role then in Philadelphia, one full equal and undi-
vided n'oety OF their REFLECTIVE ihares, and interce
IN the lat deicrbed tract Except one tenth of the
whole which moety iliould contain one million two
hundred thouane acres and for which full payment
and lat'siattion made, as By the deeds and con-,
tracts accompanying this memorial viii more fully
appear.
That John A. Scott, berg one Of the grantees in
the Upper MIillippi company, did, on the Fifteenth
day Of January, 1895, transfer and aiIirn over TO
Wade Hampton, his heirs and alIgns forever all the
right, title interet and benefit which he the Jaid
John b. Scott as grantee otherwiie had or did
hold in the fsid MilIfivpi company, being re
ven twenty-ff;h parts thereof, and Iohn G.
Nightingale by isdenturs, bearing dzte the ievcn
eenth day of January in the fame year, did fell and
convey to the fdid Wade Hampton, his heirs and az
igns forever all his right, title and intere which he
as grantee or otherwfe held to the faid Midigippi
company, being nine twsnty-fiih paris thereof bv
which the whole territory ,raet Of country gran
ted TO the iaid Mr,iiyp company was iolely vefted
in the iaid Wade Hampton, ms heirs and aii, n a.