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PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - DEEDS - James Minge to
Thomas Holliday, 9 AUG 1712
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THIS INDENTURE made ye twenty ninth day of August in
the eleventh year of the
reign of our sovereign Lady Queen Ann of Great Brittain
&c. And in the year of
our Lord Christ, one thousand seven hundred & twelve
between James Minge,
eldest son of James Minge deceased of the County of Prince
George in Virginia
of the one part & Thomas Holliday of the County of James
Citty in Virginia of
the other part. Whereas, the saidJames Minge by
Indenture bearing date the
28th day of this instant month of August for the
considereation therein
expressed did bargain & sell unto the said Thomas Holliday
all that, his
tracts or parcell of land containing five hundred &
forty acres lying & being
in the parish of Southmark upon Josephs Swamp in the
County of Surry and
bounded as followeth (to witt):
Beginning at a live oak corner tree standing in Robins
Meadow near ye mouth
thereof and a little below a branch running out of it
thence upon the dividing
line of William Flande's north eighty six degrees & a half
easterly one
hundred seventy and three chains to a corner red oak
standing in an old line
thence along that line south five degrees easterly six
chains to a corner
thence south thirty degrees easterly one hundred & fifteen
chains to a forked
black oak standing by a road commonly called Pidgeon Swamp
Road thence north
eighty two degrees westerly five hundred fifty & five
chains to a corner white
oak standing in a branch of Josephs Swamp then down the
said branch & up the
watercourse of the said swamp to the mouth of the
aforesaid meadow & up that
meadow to the place where it first began eit? the said
lands being part of the
bounds laid out by Mr. John Allen, surveyor of Surry
County for two thousand
eight hundred & odd acres for the use of the deceased, Mr.
James Minge & is
laid off & surveyed at the request of the first above
named James Minge &
granted to him by Pattent bearing date the twenty sixth
day of Aprill last
past? (as by the said Pattent may appear) all which said
tract of land with
the tenenents, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever
with all proffits,
commoditys, priviledges & advantages to the said granted
premises belonging or
any waise appertaining with all the reversion &
reversions, remainder &
remainders thereof.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said five hundred & forty acres
of land with all wood,
underwoods, swamps, marshes, low grounds, meadows,
feedings, pastures with all
other hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever unto the
said Thomas Holliday,
his executors, administrators & assigns from the day next
before the date of
these present Indenture unto the end & term of one year
from thence next
following to the intent that by virtue thereof & of
statute for transferring
uses into possession the said Thomas might be in actuall
possession of the
premises, lands & tenements & be thereby enabled to take &
accept of a Grant &
Release of the Reversion & Inheritance thereof to him, the
said Thomas
Holliday, his heirs & assigns forever as by the said
recited Indenture more at
large appeareth.
NOW THIS INDENTURE WITTNESSETH THAT like said James
Minge, above named for
divers good causes & considerations him thereunto moving
but more especially
for in consideration of the sume of sixty pounds in
lawfull mony of England to
him in hand at & before the ensealing & delivery of these
presents by the said
Thomas Holliday well and truly paid the receipt whereof
he, the said James
Minge doth hereby acknowledge himself therewith fully
satisfyed & paid & of
every part & parcell thereof doth clearly acquitt &
discharge the said
Holliday, his heirs, executors, administrators & assigns
forever by these
presents hath given, granted, bargained, sold, remised,
released & confirmed &
doth by these presents give, grant, bargain, sell alien,
enffeof, convey,
remise, release & confirme unto the said Thomas Holliday,
his actuall
possession now being by virtue of the said recited
Indenture of bargain & sale
made to him of a year and of the said statute iso? & to
his heirs & assigns
the aforesaid five hundred & forty acres of land with the
premises &
appurtenances & all the estate rights, title, interests,
property, claim &
demand whatsoever of him, the said James Minge, of in & to
the same & every
part thereof unto all & singular its rights, members,
jurisdictions &
appurtenances together with all libertys, priviledges,
profitts, commoditys &
advantages & also all woods & waters, ways, roads,rivers,
creeks, swamps,
springs, fountains, marshes, meadows, feedings, pastures &
his due share of
all mine, mines & quarrys with all priviledges & its
royaltys of hunting &
haishing? fishing & feishing & all other commoditys &
common of pasture
hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever unto the said
lands & premises
belonging to appertaining or to any part thereof in a
large & ample manner as
it is granted to the said James by his Pattent & all the
reversion and
reversions & remainder & remainders thereof & every part
thereof.
TO HAVE & TO HOLD the said lands, tenements,
hereditaments & the premises with
all the appurtenances herein before mentioned to be
granted to the said Thomas
Holliday, his heirs and assigns & to his and their proper
use & behoof
forever. And the said James Minge, for him, his
heirs, executors &
administrators & assigns doth covenant & grant to and with
the said Thomas
Holliday, his heirs & assigns in manner following (that is
to say) that he,
the said James Minge, at the time of sealing & delivery of
these presents hath
good rightfull power & lawfull authority to sell & convey
the said land &
premises with all the appurtenances to the said Thomas
Holliday, his heirs &
assigns forever in fee simple & that by virtue of these
presents, the said
Thomas, his heirs or assigns shall for ever hereafter be &
stand lawfully
seized of a good, pure, perfect, absolute, indefizable
estate of inheritance
in fee simple of in & to the said granted lands & premises
with the
appurtenances shall & may from time to time forever
hereafter quietly &
peaceably enter into & upon the said premises & have,
hold, use, occupy,
possess, enjoy, the same & every part thereof peacably &
quietly without the
lawfull lett suitt hindrance dis-turbance, eviction,
interuption or ejection
of him, the said James, his heirs, or assigns or any other
person whatsoever &
that he, the said James, his heirs, executors &
administrators shall & will
for ever hereafter WARRANT & DEFEND him, the said Thomas,
his heirs & assigns
in the quiett possession & enjoyment of the said mentioned
to be granted lands
& premises & every part thereof free & clear of & from all
former & others
grants, bargains, sales, ffeefmints,? mortgages,
jointures, dowers leases,
judgments & extensions & incumbrances, rents or services
whatsoever by him or
them to be ujectded? or paid to any person for the same
(only the quit-rents
due & of rights accustomed to be paid to our sovereign
Lady the Queen, her
heirs & successors for the same premises only excepted &
foreprized. And the
said James Minge, for himself, his heirs &c. doth further
covenant & grant to
& with the said Thomas, his heirs, and assigns (that is to
say) that he, the
said James, his heirs, shall & will from time to time & at
all times for &
during the terme & time of tenn years next ensuing the
date of these presents
at ye reasaonable request & at the costs & charges in the
law, of the said
Thomas, his heirs, or assigns, make seal deliver execute &
acknowledge all &
every other further lawfull & reasonable act & acts, thing
& things, deeds,
conveyances & assurances in the law whatsoever for the
further better & more
perfect assurance pure? making & conveying the said
granted lands & premises
with all the appurtenances to the said Thomas Holliday,
his heirs & assigns
forever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the said James Minge, the party to
these presents hath sett
to his hand & seale the day & year first above written.
James Minge
sealed
with a wafer
In presence of:
John Rokes?
Thomas Cussons?
William Kenhair?
At a court held at Southmark for the
County of Surry Aprill ye 15th 1713
This day appeared in court the within named James Minge
& did acknowledge the
within specifyed contents to be his reall act & deed which
is ordered to be
recorded & is recorded by:
John Allen, Cl. Cur.
Also appeared in court John Allen & did by virtue of a
Power from Ruth Minge,
wife to the within named James Minge freely relinquish
her, the said Ruth's,
rights of dower of in & to the within mentioned land and
premises which is
ordered to be recorded & is recorded by:
John Allen, Cl. Cur.