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This Indenture made the Tenth day of July in the year of our lord one
thousand seven hundred and eighty four Between John White of the County
of Amelia of the one part and Isham Clements of the same County of the
other part Witnesseth that the said John White for and in Consideration
of the sum of one hundred and Seventy five pounds Current money of Virginia
to him in hand paid the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge hath
granted bargained Sold released and Confirmed and by these presents doth
grant bargain sell release and confirm unto the said Isham Clements his
heirs and assigns for ever one Certain Tract of Land Containing one hundred
and forty four Acres be the same more or less and bounded as followeth,
to wit, begining at a Corner of John Tabbs Land and joining the land of
Edmund Clement Infant, thence
along the said Infants new line
to the above named Isham Clement line thence to the land of Henry Cox
Junr. thence along the said Coxes line to the lands belonging to the above
named Isham Clement and Henry Cox Junr. whereon is a mill known by the
name of Clements mill thence to John Tabbs line thence along the said
Tabbs line to the begining To have and to hold the said land and premises
with their appurtenances unto the said Isham Clements his heirs and assigns
to the only proper use and behoof of the said Isham Clements his heirs
and assigns forever and the said John White for him and his heirs the
said land and premises against him and his heirs and all persons whatsoever
Claiming from by or under him them or any of them to the said Isham Clement
his heirs and assigns shall and will warrant & forever defend by these
presents In Witness whereof the said John White hath hereunto Set his
hand and Seal the day and year above written
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Memorandum that on the tenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and
eighty four Livery and Seizen of the within mentioned land and premises
was acknowledged to be made from John White to the within named Isham Clement
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July the 10th 1782 Recd. of Isham Clements one hundred and seventy five
pounds Current money of Virginia in full for the within mentioned Lands
and premises
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At a Court held for Amelia County the 23th day of Sepr. 1784
The Indenture with memorandum & receipt Indorsed was acknowledged by
John White the party thereto and ordered to be Recorded Ann the wife of
the said White privily Exd. relinquished her right of dower
[Note: Amelia County, VA, Deed Book 16, 1780-1784,
pp. 146-147 records
that John WHITE purchased the land he conveyed in the above deed from Edmund
Walker CLEMENT on 12 October 1782.] |