This Indenture made this 24th Day of April 1786 BETWEEN James Hicks and Judith his wife of the County of Brunswick of the one part and William Batte of the County of Greensville of the other part . . . for and in consideration of the sum of four hundred pounds . . . have granted bargained & sold unto the said William Batte one certain tract piece or parcel of land lying in Brunswick County on both sides of Jenetoe Creek containing three hundred and eighty acres . . . & bounded as follows, to wit, BEGINNING at a red oak on John Hicks's line thence North fifty four degrees West two hundred and fifty two poles to a small hicory thence South forty eight degrees West forty two poles to a srub oak on William Batte line thence South sixty eight degrees West eighty poles to a read oak thence South nineteen West one hundred and fifty one poles to Iveys corner shrub oak thence East fifty four poles to a corner turkey oak thence South twenty nine and a half degrees East sixty three poles to a small white oak thence South seventy three degrees one hundred and eighty six poles to a white oak from thence varyous courses to the BEGINNING . . . Signed by James Hicks Sr. and witnessed by Beverley Brown, Lewis Parham, and R. Watson. Brunswick County Court March 28th 1791. This Indenture of Bargain & Sale was proved according to law by the oaths of Lewis Parham a witness thereto and having been proved on the 26th Day of September 1786 by the oaths of Beverley Brown and Robert Watson also witnesses thereto the same is ordered to be recorded.

Deed Book 15, page 58, Brunswick County, Virginia