ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, VA - LAND - Patent to Mary Murfery, 1714 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Mark Murphy murphy@tiaer.tarleton.edu http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~freshnup/markmurph/ ==================================================================== [Land Patent to Mary Murfery, 16 Jun 1714] [Black Water River, Isle of Wight Co., VA] [Lib. of VA, Land Office Patents No. 10, 1710-1719, p.142, reel 10] [transcribed by Mark A. Murphy, 25 Jan 2002] Anne er&c To all er&c Know ye that for diverSe good CauSes and Considerations but more eSpecially for and in Consideration of the Importacon[?] of three[?] persons to dwell within this our Colony of Virginia whoso[?] named are Matthew Bonham Catherine Langdon & Stephen Cauldritt[?] We have Given Granted & Confirmed and by theSe preSentS for Us our Heirs & suceSsors[?] do Give Grant and Confirm unto Mary Murfery of the County of Isle of Wight one certain tract or parsol of Land containing one hundred thirty acres on the south side black water & on the EaStward side of the Cedar swamp and bounded as followeth to wit, beginning at a white oak by the swamp side of Green[or Gruit?] thence[?] south EaSterly fourty four degrees hooked[?] pole to a pine a former field of Robr Carr's land house bounding on Carr's line south EaSterly seventy nine Degrees & one hundred thirty nine pole to a pine standing on the Indian branch bound by the same north EaSterly fourteen Degrees & one hundred thirty four pole to a pine, thence[?] north weSterly thirty six degrees & twenty eight pole to a pine thence[?] southweSterly twenty seven[?] Degrees & one hundred sixty eight pole to a marker held[?] standing in the Cedar swamp thence[?] runing from the swamp side of several Courses thereof and bounding thereon to the firSt montcoude[?] itacort[?] with all er&c To Have Hold er&c To be held er&c Yielding & paying er&c Provider er&c In WitneSs er&c witneSs our thrifty & well beloved Alexander SpotSwood our L. Governor er&c att William Sturgle[?] and orbid[?] seat of our sd. colony the sixteenth day of June one thousand seven hundred and fourteen in the thirteenth year of our reign. A. Spotswood [end of record]