FREDERICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA LAND GRANT

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The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron in that part of 
Great Britain called Scotland Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia to
all to whom this present Writing shall come ______ Greeting. Know Ye that
for good causes
for and in consideration of the Composition so he paid and for the annual
Rent hereafter
reserved I have given granted and confirmed and by these presents for me my
Heirs and
assigns do give grant and confirm unto John Huddle of the County of
Frederick a certain
tract of waste and ungranted Land on a branch of Tom's Brook
and joining on Wolrick Stoner and Mary Sittle bounded also as by a Survey
thereof was by 
Wm John Baylis as followeth Beginning at awhite Oak and hence in the line of
Mary 
Little near a road thence N 40 degrees Two hundred and fifty Poles to three
white Oaks in a small
valley, thence S 20 degrees Two hundred and ten Poles to a white Oak and two
locusts on a hill
thence S 42 degrees W Two hundred and Seventy poles to a double Mulberry
saplin and spanish
Oak on Tom's Brooke, thence up the severall courses of the said Brooke with
Wolrick Stoner's 
line N 3 degrees V. Twenty eight poles N 27 degrees W Forty poles to a black
Walnut and white Oak at
the Mouth of Huddle's spring Branch Thence up the several courses of the
Branch N 2 degrees W
Twenty poles N 30 degrees E Ten poles to two white Palms and Mulberry on the
said Branch
thence leaving the said Branch and Cunnin with Wolrick Stoner's Line N 40
degrees W Eighty
two poles to a Locust and small hill in a thicket one of Stoners corners
thence with another
of his Lines 52 degrees W Eight Poles to a hill coner to Mary Hill and
Beginning corner to
Stoner, thence with the said Littles Line N 20 degrees W Forty seven Poles
bothe Beginning
Containing three hundred and Forty one acres, Together with all lights
members and Apppurte-
nances thereunto belonging Royal Mines Excepted and a full third part of all
Land copper
Tin Coals Iron Mines and Iron Ore that shall be found thereon To have and to
hold the said
Three hundred and Forty one acres of Land Together with all lights Profits
and Benefits to it
same belonging or in any wise appertaining Except before Excepted To him the
said John
Huddle his Heirs and Assigns for Ever He the said John Huddle his Heirs and
assigns therefore
____ing and Paying So Many Heirs or Assigns or to my certain Attorney or
attorneys agent
or agents or to the certain Attorney or attorneys of my Heirs or Assigns
Proprietors of the said
Northern Neck Yearly and every ____ on the Feast Day of St Michael the
Archangel the Fee 
of One Shilling Sterling Money for every Fifty Acres of Land hereby granted
and as proportionably
for a Greater or Lesser Quantity: Provided that if the said John Huddle his
Heirs and assigns
shall not Pay that before us owe annual Rent hereafter reserved I any part
thereof show ____
or unpaid by the space of Two whole Years after the same shall become Due if
Lawfully demanded.
That then it shall and may be Lawful for Me my Heirs or assigns Proprietors
as afore
my or their certain attorney or attorneys Agent or Agents into the above
granted Premises 
_____ and hold this same as if this Grant had never passed given at my ofice
in the County
of Fairfax within my said Proprietary unto my Hand and Sealed ___ this
thirtieth ________ day of August _________ in teh Twenty first Year of the
Reign of Our
Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain
Scotland Ireland
King Defender of the Faith ___ One thousand Seven hund and Fifty
John Huddle's Deed for 241 Acres					Fairfax
of Land in Frederick County
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 Jane Hunter Hodgson   
 Tucson, Arizona       
 hodgson@azstarnet.com                    
 jane-hodgson@ns.arizona.edu  
http://208.199.40.215/genealogy/index.html  
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