1To George Washington from John Harvie, 5 August 1785 (Washington Papers)
The Attorney General directed the mode of Entering your Caveat against the Heirs and Devises of Michael Cresup decd on their Survey upon your tract of Land call’d the Round Bottom. and I now Inclose you a Summons from the Clk of the General Court which you will be pleas’d to forward to the Sherif of the County where any of the Divisees reside —& if they live out of the State, I should think...
2To George Washington from John Harvie, 20 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
When I last Wrote to you I did not Recollect of any Survey being in the Land office for the Round Bottom, except the One upon which your Grant Issued but upon looking over the Caveat Book, I find a Survey for this Tract of Land return’d by the Heirs of Michael Cresup decd—and claim’d under a Certificate for Settlement made in the year 1771—Van Swearingen enter’d a Caveat against their Survey,...
3To George Washington from John Harvie, 13 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
You will receive with this Letter a copy of the previous Title Law that pass’d in the year 1779 —I also Inclose you a Certificate of the loss of your Original Survey for the 2813 Acres of Land —likewise a copy of the Grant that issued to you and General Lewis for the Burning Spring —I do not Recollect that any application has been made for the Round Bottom by Cresups Heirs or any other person...
4To George Washington from John Harvie, 22 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Upon my Researches into the Ordinances of Convention and Acts of Assembly to see if I could discover any General principle in either, Effective of your Title to the 2813 Acres of patented Land, that is the present Subject of your Ejectments, I can find no Law or Ordinance, in my Opinion Materially applicable, except the Act of Assembly that pass’d in the year 1779, Intitled an Act for...
5To George Washington from John Harvie, 13 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have to Regret that an Excursion into the Country for Eight or ten days past prevented my receiveing your Letter of March the 19th in time to Answer it by this Weeks post—I shall Sir with the highest Satisfaction look into the several Acts of Convention and Assembly that make any thing to the point and do myself the Honour of Communicating to you the Necessary References to them by the next...
6To George Washington from John Harvie, 14 April 1784 (Washington Papers)
Mr Griffith’s staying a day longer in this City than he expected to do when I first saw him, has allow’d me time to make out and forward your Grants by him, I am to Apoligize for there being on Common paper, by Assureing you that it was not in my power to procure as much Parchment at this place as was Sufficient to Contain the Grants, I have Written to Europe for a large Quantity of Parchment...
7To George Washington from John Harvie, 12 April 1784 (Washington Papers)
Mr Griffith is so good as to present me an opportunity of answering your Letter of March the 18th. the Survey you Inclosed in it for 587 Acres call’d the Round Bottom must by Law lay in this Office Six Months before a Grant can issue upon it, at the Expiration of that time (unless a Caveat is hereafter Enterd) a Grant will be issued to you reciteing the date of the Survey and the Nature of the...
8To George Washington from John Harvie, 21 February 1784 (Washington Papers)
I have Caus’d the Records and Return of Surveys in the Land Office to be accurately Searched to Collect proper Information respecting the Tracts of Land you mention in your Letter, and am sorry that my researches will produce you so little Satisfaction, amongst the Surveys (not patented) turn’d over to me by the Secretary, I find two of yours of which I inclose you Copys, they only wait your...