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HENRY, PATRICK, Virginia patriot. Partly printed document signed ("P Henry" as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, Va., 29 April 1786. 1 page, oblong folio, 338 x 393 mm. (13 1/4 x 15 5/8 in.), ON PARCHMENT, accomplished in manuscript, matted, glazed and framed. The Governor certifies a grant of lands to Samuel Purviance and William McCreery comprising a 2,000-acre trace in Monangahela County (present-day West Virginia), whose boundaries are described in considerable detail as surveyed.