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DEED, Wm. SMYTH and Abraham GOARD, 3-24-1699 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. |
