| William Stith - Virginia - 1747 - 554 pages
...the Northward, two hundred Miles, and from the faid Point of Cape Comfort, all along the Sea Coaft, to the Southward, two hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coaft of the Precinft aforefaid, up or into the Land, throughout from Sea to Sea, Weft and Narthweft,... | |
| John Marshall - 1805 - 544 pages
...the northward, and from the same point, along the seacoast, two hundred miles to the southward, and up into the land throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest ; and also, all the islands lying within one hundred miles of the coast of both seas of the precinct... | |
| John Leeds Bozman - America - 1811 - 404 pages
...the northward, two hundred miles, and from the said point of Cape Comfort, all along the sea-coast to the southward, two hundred miles, and all that...land throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest ; and also all the islands lying within one hundred miles along the coast of both seas of the precinct... | |
| United States - Land tenure - 1811 - 480 pages
...the northward, two hundred miles, and from the said Point of Cape Comfort, All along the sea coast to the southward, two hundred miles ; and all that space and circuit of land lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1821 - 526 pages
...sea-coast to the northward, two hundred miles, and from the point of Cape Comfort all along the sea-coast to the southward two hundred miles ; and all that...land throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest.' Charter of Virginia, sec. 6. Few men at the present day, probably, would presume so much on their sagacity,... | |
| George Weller - 1821 - 370 pages
...sea-coast to the northward, two hundred miles, and from the point of Cape Comfort all along the sea-coast to the southward two hundred miles; and all that space...land throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest." Charter of Virginia, sec. 6. Few men at the present day, probably, would presume so much on their sagacity,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1823 - 756 pages
...to the northward two hundred miles; and from the said Cape or Point Comfort, all along the seacoast to the southward, two hundred miles ; and all that...space and circuit of land lying from the seacoast of tne precinct aforesaid, up into the land throughout from the sea, west and northwest; and also all... | |
| Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1823 - 462 pages
...the northward, two hundred miles, and from the said point of Cape Comfort all along the sea coast, to the southward, two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinctaforesaid, up or into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest,... | |
| Thomas Paine - Political science - 1824 - 444 pages
...said point or cape Comfort, all along the seacoast to the southward, 200 miles; and all that space or circuit of land lying from the seacoast of the precinct...throughout, from sea to sea, WEST and northwest." The first remark I shall offer on the words of this grant is, that they are uncertain, obscure and... | |
| Thomas Paine - Political science - 1824 - 524 pages
...ambiguous mention made of two lands in this patent, as well as of two seas; viz, and all that " space or circuit of land lying from the seacoast of the precinct...aforesaid up into the land throughout from sea to sea.'' On which I remark, that the two lands here mentioned have the appearance of a major and a minor, or... | |
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