Liberty County GaArchives Deed.....Andrew, Benjamin - Graves, John May 29, 1759 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Beth Collins http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002523 October 27, 2009, 2:07 pm Written: May 29, 1759 Recorded: June 4, 1759 Colonial Deeds Book C1, pp. 405-406 Georgia To all Christian people to whom these presents shall come John Graves of the parish of St. Johns and province aforesaid planter sendeth greeting Know ye, that the said John Graves for and in Consideration of the sum of five shillings sterling before the sealing and delivery of these presents to him in hand well and truly paid by Benjamin Andrew of the same parish & province aforesaid planter for the absolute power of a parcel or lott of land hereafter particular mentioned the receipt whereof the said John Graves doth hereby confess & acknowledge and himself therewith fully satisfied & contented & doth by these presents from every part & parcel thereof for ever acquit release and discharge the said Benjamin Andrew his Heirs & assigns, and by these presents hath granted bargained sold conveyed and confirmed to the said Benjamin Andrew his heirs & assigns for ever. All that parcel or lott of land containing fifty feet in front or width and seventy feet in depth or length lying & being in the aforesaid parish and on the south side of the third branch of North Newport river being part of the tract of land commonly called Gravesend, near the publick landing & situate to the eastward on the said landing path or road & bounding two other sides on land of the said Graves & to the Northward on a lott granted to James Andrew & known by the number five and hath such shape & form as is expressly laid down in a plan of the same certified by Andrew Way dept surveyor reference being thereunto had with more fully & largely appear To have and to hold the said parcel of lot of land containing fifty feet front and seventy feet in length above mentioned bargained & sold, together with all the timber & every of the appurtenances thereunto belonging unto the said Benjamin Andrew his Heirs and Assigns to and for their only use benefits and behoof for evermore the said John Graves at the delivery of these presents doth promise covenant & agree with the said Benjamin Andrew that he the said John Graves hath full power & absolute authority to grant sell & confirm the said lott or parcel of land aforesaid without any power of revocation unto the said Benjamin Andrew his Heirs and Assigns unto there own benefit & behoof forevermore. And further that the said John Graves his Heirs and every person or persons lawfully claiming or to claim any Estate title trust or Interest unto the said lott or parcel of land abovementioned by from or under him or them shall & will from time to time and at all times hereafter at the reasonable request proper use & charges in the law of the said Benjamin Andrew his Heirs & Assigns make do acknowledge & Execute all & every such other & further lawfull & reasonable Conveyances and Assurances in the law whatsoever for the more perfect & absolute conveying & assuring of the said parcel or lot of land containing sixty (sic) feet in width & seventy feet in length as aforesaid as by the said Benjamin Andrew his Heirs & assigns or his or there Councell learned in the law shall be reasonably advised devised & required. And lastly that the said John Graves for himself his Heirs Executors & administrators the said parcell or lott of land containing fifty feet in width & seventy feet in depth together with all the appurtenances thereto belonging unto the said Benjamin Andrew his Heirs & assigns against him the said John Graves his Heirs & every such other person or persons whatsoever lawfully claiming or to claim from by or under him or them shall and will forever warrant & defend by these presents In witness whereof the said John Graves and Elizabeth Graves his wife in token of her free consent in this act of her husbands testifying hereby her renunciation of dower and any future presence of Claim or right of thirds in or to the aforesaid parcel or lot of land, have hereunto set their hands & seals the twenty ninth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand seven Hundred and fifty nine & in the thirtysecond year of his Majestys reign signed sealed & delivered John Graves in presence of Elizabeth Graves James Fisher Thomas Christie William Swinton Receivd the day & year within written of the within named Benjamin Andrew the full sum of five shillings sterling in full of the consideration money within mentioned receivd to me John Graves Witness James Fisher St Johns parish in Georgia } These are to certify that on the second day of June 1759 Thomas Christie one of the within subscribing witnesses personally appeared before me the subscriber one of his Majestys Justices for the parish and province aforesaid who being duly sworn declareth that he was present and did see John Graves & Elizabeth his Wife sign seal & deliver the within Instrument as their act and deed and that he also saw James Fisher & William Swinton sign together with himself as Witnesses thereto sworn before me the day & year above mentioned. John Elliott Recorded 4 June 1759 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/liberty/deeds/graves193ndd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 5.8 Kb