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STATE OF GEORGIA.

By the Honorable George Mathews Efquire, Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the faid State.

To all to whom thefe prefents fhall come, GREETING:

KNOW YE, That in Purfuance of the Act for opening the Land Office, and by virtue of the Powers in me vefted, I HAVE, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Honorable the Executive Council, given and granted, and by thefe prefents, in the Name and Behalf of the faid State, DO give and grant unto John Gillstrap his 
Heirs and Affigns forever, ALL that Tract of Parcel of Land, containing Three 
Hundred Acres, fituate, lying, and being, in the County of Burke in the faid State, and butting and bounding North by Roundtrees land North west by Whitakers land East by unknown land and South by Great Ogechee River having fuch Shape, Form, and Marks, as appear by a Plat of the fame hereunto annexed; together with all and fingular the Rights, Members, and appurtenances thereof, whatfoever, to the faid Tract or Parcel of Land belonging, or in any wife appertaining; and alfo all the Eftate, Right, Title, Intereft, Claim and Demand, of the State aforefaid, or, in, to, or out of the fame; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the faid Tract of Parcel of Land, and all and fingular the Premifes aforefaid, with their and every of their Rights, Members, and Appurten-ances, unto the faid John Gillstrap his Heirs and Affigns, to his and their own proper Ufe and Behoof forever, in Fee Simple

Given under my Hand in Council and the Great Seal of the faid State, this twelfth Day of January in the year of our Lord, One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Eighty Eight and in the Twelfth Year of American Independence.
Signed by His Honor the Governor in Council the 12th Day of Jany 1788

J Meriwethers CC

Registered the 1st day of February 1788.

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