| RICHMOND
COUNTY DEEDS 1695-1701
pp
107 -110
(Deed
Book 3, Page 54, according to K. F. Haas)
THIS
INDENTURE made the 24th day of March in the yeare of our Lord according
to the computacon of the Church of England 1699 Between WM: SMYTH of the
Parish of NORTH FARNHAM & County of Richmond, Carpenter, of the one
part and ABRAHAM GOARD of the Parish & County aforesaid also Plantr.
of the other part. Witnesseth that the said WILLIAM SMYTH for Six thousand
pounds of tobacco good & merchantable in caske to be paid hath granted
unto the said ABRAHAM GOARD his heirs & assignes forever one parcell
of Land conteyning One hundred & fifty acres or thereabouts be it more
or less, one part of wch: the houses & plantacon of the said WM. SMYTH
& now in the occupation & holding of the said ABRAHAM GOARD, being
prt of a greater devident conteyning Foure hundred ninty & eight acres
belonging to the said WM. SMYTH, scituate lying & being on the North
side of Rappahannock River and on the branches of FARNHAM & MORATTICO
CREEKs beginning at a marked Poplar standing in the mouth of a forke or
branch that issues out of the BRYERY SWAMP and running alongs a line of
marked tress to DACRES, his PATH, thence alonge the meanders of the said
PATH to the line of the said WILLIAM SMYTH bearing Easterly, thence alonge
the said line to the Poplar, the first station, And likevise all houses
buildings in upon or about the said One hundred & fifty acres of land
or thereabouts with the profitts belonging, And also all right of the said
WILLIAM SMYTH to the said Land, To have & to hold to the only proper
use of him the said ABRAHAM GOARD his heirs & assignes forever, fully
discharged from all manner of formes & titles comitted by the said
WM: SMYTH his heirs, the Quitrents hereof only excepted to be paid unto
the Chief Lords or Proprietors of the Fees by the said ABRAHAM GOARD his
heirs or assignes, And the said WM. SMYTH doth agree for himselfe his heirs
warrant & forever defend against the claimes of any persons whatsoever
so that the said ABRAHAM GOARD his heirs may hold the before granted pr:misses
and the profitts of the same to take without the hinderance of said WM.
SMYTH his heirs or any other persons clayming the same. In Witness whereof
I have sett my hand & seale
Sealed
& detivent in pr:sence of us WILLIAM SMYTH, his marke
RICHARD
( ) SAMPHEE, his marke
THO:
( ) HUGHES, his mark
EDWARD
JONES
Recognitr:
in Cur:. Com: Richmond 3d. die Aprilis Ano: Dom: 1700 et record 29th die
Test
WM. COLSTON, Cl Cur
KNOW
ALL MEN by these pr:sents that I EVE SMYTH, the Wife of WILLIAM SMYTHof
the Parish of NORTH FARNHAM and County of Richmond, Carpenter, have nominated
& constituted SAMUEL SAMMFORD my true & lawfuff Attorney to appeare
afore the Worshipll Court of Richmond & acknowledge my full assent
& consent to the passing away all my right & interest of Dower
unto certaine Lands sold unto ABRAHAM GOARD & by a certaine Indenture
bearing date with these pr:sens and therefore I do hereby release &
forever quit claims all my right of Dower to the said Lands & every
part thereof. As witness my hand and seal this 24th of March Ano: Dom:
1699 in pr:sence of us
RICHD:
SAMPEE his marke Eve Smyth, her marke
THO:
HUGHES, his marke
EDWARD
JDNES
Recordr:
Test WM. COLSTON, Cl Cur
Memoran:
The (blank) day of March 1699 the within named WILLIAM SMYTH entered into
the Capitall messuage & tooke possession thereof & also tooke turff
& twigg on the land within granted & then peacably after delivered
possession & seisin thereby of all & singular the plantacon lands
houses & pr:misses within mentioned according to the tenour of this
pr:sent Deed of Grant & Sale unto the within named ABRAHAM GOARD. As
Witness his hand the day & years first above written in pr:sence of
us (No signatures)
Record:
Test WM. COLSTON, Cl.
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