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George
the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
Defender of the Faith & To
all to whom these Presents
shall come Greeting know ye that for divers good
Causes and Considerations but more especially for and in Consideration
of the Sum of Forty shillings of good and lawful
money for our use paid to our Receiver General of our Revenues in this
our Colony and Dominion of Virginia We have Given
Granted and Confirmed and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors
do Give Grant & Confirm unto Benjamin
Clemments one certain Tract or Parcel of Land containing Four hundred
acres lying and being in the County of Amelia upon the branches of the
Bent Run adjoining William Eckhols's, Paulin Anderson's James Hurt's and
Joseph Eckhols's Lines & bounded as followeth (to wit) Beginning
at Joseph Eckhols's upper Corner upon Bent Run Thence along his Line East
fourteen and a half Degrees North one hundred and twenty Poles Thence
South twenty Degrees West two hundred Poles to a faced Corner Thence West
thirty four Degrees North twelve Poles to James Hurt's Corner white Oak
Thence North forty one Degrees West three hundred and twenty Poles to
Paulin Anderson's Line Thence along the same North fourteen Degrees East
three hundred twenty seven Poles to William Eckhols's upper Corner on
the lower Side of the Bent Run Thence along his new Lines South thirty
six Degrees East one hundred and forty two Poles to Joseph Eckhols's Corner
in the same and Thence along his Line South three hundred Poles to the
beginning With
all Woods Underwoods Swamps Marshes Lowgrounds & Meadows Feedings
and his due Share of all Veins Mines and Quarries as well discovered as
not discovered within the bounds aforesaid and being part of the said
quantity of four hundred acres of Land and the Rivers Waters and Water
Courses therein contained together with the Privileges of Hunting Hawking
Fishing Fowling and all other Profits Commodities and Hereditaments whatsoever
to the same or any part thereof belonging or in any wise appertaining
To have hold Possess and Enjoy the said Tract or
Parcel of Land and all other the before granted Premisses and every Part
thereof with their and every of their Appurts unto the said
Benjamin Clemments and to his Heirs and Assigns forever; To the only
use and behoof of him the sd Benjamin
Clemments his Heirs & Assigns forever To be held
of us our Heirs & Successors as of our Manor of East Greenwich in
the County of Kent in free and common Soccage and not in Capite or by
Knights Service Yielding and Paying unto us our
Heirs and Successors for every fifty acres of Land and so proportionably
for a lesser or greater quantity than fifty Acres the Fee Rent of one
Shilling Yearly to be paid upon the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch Angel
and also Cultivating and Improving three Acres part of every fifty of
the Tract abovementioned within three years after the Date of these Presents
Provided always that if three years of the said
Fee Rent shall at any time be in arrear and unpaid or if the said Benjamin
Clemments his Heirs or Assigns do not within the Space of three Years
next coming after the date of these Presents Cultivate and Improve three
Acres part of every fifty of the Tract abovementioned Then the Estate
hereby granted shall Cease and be utterly determined and thereafter it
shall and may be lawful to and for us our Heirs and Successors to grant
the same Lands and Premisses with the Appurts unto such other Person or
Persons as we our Heirs and Successors shall think fit In
Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters Patent to be made
Witness our Trusty and Welbeloved William Gooch
Esq. our Lieut Goveunor and Comander in Chief of our said Colony and Dominion
at Williamsburgh under the Seal of our said Colony this Sixteenth Day
of June one thousand seven hundred and thirty eight In the Twelfth year
of our Reign
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