You count from the end of the Rev War and that should equal the number in the ????. It’s a marker for when the Commonwealth began as a separate legal entity.
Lyle Browning
> On Feb 14, 2015, at 9:41 AM, Roger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I have a land grant for Henry Rakes jr dated 22 August 1787.
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> The last line of the land grant reads "in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the Commonwealth the ????"
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> I can not figure out what the ???? is. It seems to be some type of dating as I see it on many of the land grants of this period usually something like "and of the Commonwealth 13"
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> Any help in understand what this means would be appreciated.
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> Thanks
> Roger
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