Arris Meadows [15572]

  General Notes:

Also spelled Aries Meadows.


ARIES MEADOWS
Now isn't this interesting? Peter Davis, who married Susannah Meadows in 1799, assigned a Land Office Treasury Warrant to Aries Meadows. Aries used the warrant to secure 50 acres of land on two runs of the Greenbrier River in 1801. A transcript of the land grant follows my signature line.

So far as I know, this is the first direct tie that has been discovered between Aries and a member of the family of Francis Meadows I. This fits well with our assumption that Aries and Susannah were brother and sister.

Curt Systma

1801 LAND GRANT. "Aries Meadows, 50 acres, Greenbrier County.
James Monroe Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all To whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by Virtue of an exchanged Land Office Treasury Warrant Number three hundred and eighty nine issued the sixth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine, There is Granted by the said Commonwealth unto Aries Medows assignee of Peter Davis a Certain tract or parcel of Land containing fifty acres by survey bearing date the twentieth day of September one thousand Seven hundred & ninety eight lying and being in the County of Greenbrier on the waters of Kishinger Run and the waters of little Stoney Creek both Branches of Greenbrier River and bounded as followeth "to wit" Beginning at a black oak and white oak corner to Meadows on Bank's line and leaving both north fifty degrees east forty eight poles to a white oak South eighty degrees east forty six poles to a black oak and dogwood north forty five degrees east fifty poles to two spanish oaks Sounty seventy degrees east one hundred poles to two white oaks South fifteen degrees east thirty one poles to a white oak corner to Meadows and thence with his line north eighty nine degrees West two hundred and eighteen poles to the Beginning with its appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel or land with its appurtenances to the said Aries Meadows and his heirs forever. In Witness Whereof the said James Monroe esq. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hat hereunto Set his hand and caused the lesser seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the eighteenth day of August in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and one and of the Commonwealth the Twenty Sixth -- /s/ James Monroe." SOURCE: Virginia Land Grants, Book 48, at Pages 268-269, downloaded from the Library of Virginia's Digital Library on September 20, 1999 and transcribed by Curt L. Sytsma.