Indenture 23 March 1772, betw. Benja. Hicks and his wife Martha of the Parish of Meherrin in the County of Brunswick and Lewis Hicks and same, for Two hundred and Seventy five Curren t money of Virginia, sell to Lewis Hicks, All that Tract or parcel of Land Situtate in Meherrin Parish in the said County of Brunswick on Both sides of the Great Creek and the Little Creek and with the Bounds Following, to wit, Beginning at a Corenr Several Trees Chopt Inwards thence South Nineteen Degrees East forty Poles to a Red Oak thence new line North Sixty two and an half Degrees East three Hundred and Ninty Poles to a red oak on the old line thence on the old line North four degrees West sixxty poles to Robt. Hicks Corner Shrub White Oak thence along his line North Seventy one Degrees west two hundred poles to a Shrub white oak on the little Creek thence South thirty Seven and a half Degrees West twenty one Poles to a Small Hicory on the fort Road thence South Sixty two Degrees west Fifty eight Poles to Several Possimmons trees in the Head of a Small North fork of a Branch thence Down the said Fork and branch as it Meanders to a white oak on the Edge of the Low grounds of the Great Creek thence along the edge of the low grounds South to a Populer thence North line a cross the said Creek west to a spanish oak on the old Line thence South on the old line to a Corner Choped Inwards on the old Indian line thence South five Degrees East one hundred and fifty Two poles to the Beginning and being part of a tract of Land Containing Nine Hundred and thirty Two acres granted unto Mr. Benjamin Seawell by Letter patent Bearing Date ___ Seal of the Seal of the Collony the Twelfth day of May one one thousand seven hundred anf fifty nine be the same Two hundred and Seventy acres, more or less. Signed Benjamin Hicks and Martha Hicks (bhm) Witnesses: Burwell Robinson, Ishamel Dunn, and James Crutchfield.

Court 23 March 1772, Indenture acknowedged by Benjamin Hicks and Martha his wife.

Deed Book 10, page 362, Brunswick County, Virginia