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Original 1704 Land Grant

1704 Land Grant of 10,000 Acres from the Colony of Virginia to the
French Huguenots
Resolved, That Ten Thousand Acres of land be laid out at the
Manakin town and Appropriated to the Use of the french Refugees
there settled. That every french Refugee inhabiting at the Manakin
and parts adjacent have liberty to take up So much of the said
ten thousand Acres as will make his quantity (all ready taken up) of
one hundred thirty-three acres.Copy--Test William Randolph Clerk
House Burgesses
The original is in the Edwin Markham Archives, Horrmann Library,
Wagner College, Staten Island NY.
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