![HENRY, Patrick, Governor of Virginia. Partly printed document signed ("P Henry") as Governor, CONCERNING GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, n.p. [Richmond], 29 January 1780. 1 page, small oblong folio, original red wax seal of the Virginia Land Office, accomplished in manuscript, decorative border of typographical ornaments, verso discreetly silked, accomplishment faded.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1999/NYR/1999_NYR_09178_0199_000(115057).jpg?w=1)
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HENRY, Patrick, Governor of Virginia. Partly printed document signed ("P Henry") as Governor, CONCERNING GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, n.p. [Richmond], 29 January 1780. 1 page, small oblong folio, original red wax seal of the Virginia Land Office, accomplished in manuscript, decorative border of typographical ornaments, verso discreetly silked, accomplishment faded.
HENRY GRANTS FRONTIER LANDS TO GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. An attractively printed Land Office treasury warrant, numbered 2156, addressed to the "principal Surveyor of any County within the Commonwealth of Virginia" in recompense for service in the Revolutionary War. Governor Henry awards Clark the quantity of "five hundred & fifty Acres of Land...for recruiting his Battalion & in lieu of the bounty of...& in Consideration of the Sum of two hundred & twenty pounds current Money paid into the Publick Treasury."
Clark (1752-1818), an explorer and frontiersman, had explored the western reaches of Virginia and the Ohio Valley before the Revolution; during the war he raised the Kentucky militia and, with a small force, successfully wrested control of most of the Old Northwest territory from the British and their Indian allies (territory formally ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of 1783). As Peckham has written "he remains one of those remarkable and unaccountable products of the frontier" (War for Independence, p.107). Clark spent several years after the war helping to supervise the allocation of 150,000 acres north of the Ohio River which Virginia had set aside for Clark's veterans. While similar land grants of Henry occasionally surface, this one is especially interesting for its connection to Clark.
HENRY GRANTS FRONTIER LANDS TO GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. An attractively printed Land Office treasury warrant, numbered 2156, addressed to the "principal Surveyor of any County within the Commonwealth of Virginia" in recompense for service in the Revolutionary War. Governor Henry awards Clark the quantity of "five hundred & fifty Acres of Land...for recruiting his Battalion & in lieu of the bounty of...& in Consideration of the Sum of two hundred & twenty pounds current Money paid into the Publick Treasury."
Clark (1752-1818), an explorer and frontiersman, had explored the western reaches of Virginia and the Ohio Valley before the Revolution; during the war he raised the Kentucky militia and, with a small force, successfully wrested control of most of the Old Northwest territory from the British and their Indian allies (territory formally ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of 1783). As Peckham has written "he remains one of those remarkable and unaccountable products of the frontier" (War for Independence, p.107). Clark spent several years after the war helping to supervise the allocation of 150,000 acres north of the Ohio River which Virginia had set aside for Clark's veterans. While similar land grants of Henry occasionally surface, this one is especially interesting for its connection to Clark.