GRANT: BENJAMIN STENNET, 1750 Virginia Land Office Patents No. 29, 1749-51, pp. 172-173 400 acres, Albemarle County, Virginia Date: 1 June 1750 ******************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Submitted by Mary C. Smith ******************************************************************* GEORGE the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith viz 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 and confirm unto Benjamin Stennet one certain Tract or Parcel of Land containing four hundred Acres lying and being in the County of Albemarle near the Tobacco Row Mountains on the North Branches of Huff's Creek and bounded as followeth, to wit, BEGINNING at a Chesnut Oak and running thence South one hundred and eighty Poles to Pointers North East seventy five Degrees three hundred Poles to a Chesnut North West twelve Degrees two hundred and eighty three Poles to a white Oak and Chesnut Oak near the Top of a small Mountain Thence South West fifty one Degrees two hundred and ninety six Poles to the Beginning WITH ALL Woods Underwoods Swamps Marshes Longrounds 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 Premises and every Part thereof with their and every of their Appurtenances unto the said Benjamin Stennet and to his Heirs and Assigns forever to the Only use and behoof of him the said Benjamin Stennet his Heirs and Assigns forever TO BE HELD of us our Heirs and Successors as of our Mannor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knight's Service YIELDING AND PAYING unto us our Heirs and Successors for every fifty Acres of Land and we proportionably for a lesser or a 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 above mentioned within three Years after the Date of these Presents-- PROVIDED always that if three Years of the said Fee Rent shall at anytime be in Arrears and unpaid or if the said Benjamin Stennet 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 above mentioned then the Estate hereby granted shall cease and be utterly determined determined and thereafter it shall and may be lawful to and for us our Heirs and Successors to grant the same Lands and Premises with the Appurtenances 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 Well beloved Thomas Lea Esq. President of our Council and Commander in Chief of our said Colony and Dominion at Williamsburgh under the Seal of our said Colony the first Day of June One thousand seven hundred and fifty In the twenty third Year of our Reign. Thomas Lea P. (Transcribed by Mary C. Smith from a copy of the grant document, Library of Virginia, Electronic Card Indexes, Land Records, Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants, Surname Index, " " Card No. 50 of 61) ******************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. *******************************************************************