Person:Mungo Price (1)

Mungo Price was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Early Land Acquisition in Virginia

Land Warrants

To Mr. George Hume. Whereas Mungo Price of Augusta hath informed us there are about Four Hundred Acres of Waste & ungranted Land in of Sd. County. Whereon he now lives n the Branch of Hawks Bill.

And desiring a Warrant to Survey of lands in order to Obtain a Deed being ready to pay the Composition & Office Charges. These are therefore to Empower you & sd. George Hume to Survey of sd. waste land for said.

Provided if be of first Warrant hath ___ for of same. And you are to make a true, just & accurate, survey thereof describing of Courses & distances & poles also if Buttings & Boundings of if Severall persons lands adjoining. And where you cannot joun on any know lines You are to make a breath of the Tract to ear at least if proportion of one third part of length as he _- of Virge? - directs you are also to Incent of names of ye pilos? & Chain Carriers made use of & employed. A Plan of which sd. Survey with he Warrant You are to give in to if Offite? any time before he twenty fifth of March next ensuing. Given under my hand & seal of Proportions Office this 20th Day of November & in ye twenty third year of his Magistie King George of Seconds Reign. [Signed] G.W. Fairfax.

10br ye 5th 1749. By Virtue of a Warrant from the Proprietors Office dated ye 20th day of 9ber 1749 Surveyed for Mungo Price three hundred acres of Land lying in Augusta County & on ye branches of Hawksbill Beginning at two small white oaks & one chesnut Oak & runs the North West two hundred pole to B, two White Oaks & one Red Oak, then South West two hundred & forty pole to C, one Pine, then South East one hundred pole to D, one White Oak, the Nirth East two hundred & forty pole to the beginning.

Signed G. Hume

Solomon Rion & John Price, Chain Carriers

Mungo Price _ for 300 acres. 30 August: 1739, the whole ___. Paid by Lewis Pence. :Deed Drawn

Entered in Book K, pls 35

4 Jan. 1749/50 Philip PRINCE, Senr. assignee of Solomon RYAN of Augusta Co. Survey [no date] for 217 acres on brs. of Hawksbill. Chain carriers Samuell SHORT, Edwd. PRICE. On 4 Mar. 1760 Solomon RYAN of St. Stephens Parish, Orange Co. sold to Joannes Philip PRINCE a survey adj. Saml. SHORT, Senr. & Edward PRICE. Wit.: Jacob OFFENBACHER, John PRICE, Monge (x) PRICE. [1]

Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants:

K-35: Mungo Price of Frederick Co., 300 acres in said County on Brs. of Hawksbill. Surv. George Hume. 8 Nov. 1757. Solomon Rion & John Price, Chain Carriers [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 113].

Records in Virginia

Virginia Northern Neck Land Grant: K-74: John Gore of Frederick Co., 317 acres in said County. Surv. George Hume. Adj. Mungo Price, John Nicholson. 10 Mar 1760. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 115].