Good Morning
I am chasing the Rakes family but am still in Amherst County with my
connections.  What County did you find this is?

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Roger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have a land grant for Henry Rakes jr dated 22 August 1787.
>
> 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 ????"
>
> 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"
>
> Any help in understand what this means would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Roger
>
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