Lord Fairfax's Land Grant to Johan Philip Sonner, Shenandoah County, Virginia
Johan Philip Sonner
Four
Fairfax
Land Grants
Grant number 1 is located mostly East of the Back Road and mostly North
of Brubaker Road West of Strasburg, Virginia. Parts of his house still
stands on this property.
The Right Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax
Baron of Common in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland Proprietor
of The Northern Neck of Virginia. To all to whom this Present Writing Shall
come sends Greeting. Know ye that for good cause for and in Consideration
of the Composition to one paid and for the annual Rent herein after reserved,
I have given, granted and confirmed and by these Presents for me my Heirs
and Assigns do give, grant and confirm unto Philip Sonner, Michael Feezel
and Bostian Feezel of Frederick County, a Certain Tract of Waste and Ungranted
Land on the Branches of Funk's Mill Run a Branch of and on the West Side
of the North river of Shannandoah in the said County and bounded as by
a Survey thereof made by Robert Ruterford, Beginning at a Locust and White
Oak Sapling, Corner to the Land Surveyed for John Tory and running with
his lines as follows, S 70 W One Hundred and Twenty four Poles to a Hickory
and Gum on a Ridge, Then N 70 W crossing a Branch Ninety two Poles in Tory's
Line at a Parcel of Stones put together by a Covered Hickory and White
Oak, Then S 29 W Eighty Poles to two White Oak and a Red Oak corner to
Frederick Ox's Survey, Then with Ox's Lines as follows, S 61 E One Hundred
and sixteen Poles to two White Oaks one of them blazed, then S 29 W Fourteen
Poles to two White Oaks, Then S 61 E Seventy nine Poles to sundry small
Saplings by a large White Oak Ox's Corner Then S 70 E One Hundred and forty
poles to Three Red Oaks by a Sink Hole, Then N 30 E Sixty Poles to three
White Oaks, Then S 60 E Seventy five Poles to four young White Oaks, several
Trees in this last mentioned Line are blazed, Then N 30 E Fifty Poles to
the Line of George Dellinger's Survey by two Red Oaks, Then with his Line
as follows, N 35 W Twenty five poles to a White Oak, Then N 55 E one Hundred
and eighty Poles in Dellinger's Line at a White Oak Corner to Henry Pifer's
Survey, Then with his Line N 35 W Thirty eight Poles to his Corner two
White Oaks and then S 26 W Two Hundred and forty Poles to the Beginning
Containing Five Hundred and Seventy Four Acres, Together with all rights
M .... and appurtenances Thereunto belonging, Royal Mines excepted and
a full third Part of all Lead, Copper, Tin, Coals, Iron Mine and Iron Ore
that shall be found thereon, To have and to hold the said Five Hundred
and twenty four Acres of Land together with all Rights, Profits and Benefits
to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining, Except before excepted,
To Them the said Philip Sonner, Michael Feezel and Bostian Feezel, their
Heirs and Assigns Forever, They the said Philip Sonner, Michael Feezel
and Bostain Feezel their Heirs and Assigns therefore Yielding and paying
to me, my Heirs or Assigns, or to the certain attorney or attornies, agent
or Agents or to the Certain Attorney, or Attorneys of my Heirs or Assigns,
Proprietor of the said Northern Neck, yearly and every year on The Feast
Day of St. Michael the Archangel The rent of One Shilling, Sterling Money
for every Fifty Acres of land hereby granted and so proportionate for greater
or lesser Quantity, Provided that if the said Philip Sonner, Michael Feezel
and Bostian Feezel, their Heirs and Assigns shall not pay the said reserved
annual Rent as aforesaid so that the same or any Part thereof shall be
behind and unpaid by the space of Two whole Years after the same shall
become due, I legally demand that then it shall and may be lawful for me,
my Heir or Assigns, Proprietors, as afore said my or their Certain Attorney
or Attorneys agent or agents into the above granted premises to reenter
and hold the same as if this Grant had never passed, Given at my Office
in the County of Frederick Under my Hand and Seal, Dated the 15th Day of
July AD 1766, Philip Sonner, Mich. Feezel & Bost. Feezel their Deed
for 524 Acres in Frederick.
