ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, VA - DEEDS - Rowland GRIFFETH [GRIFFITH, GRIFFEN]
                                   to Jane (GRIFFETH) DESLOGES [DELOACH]
				   9 Aug 1671
				   Deed of Gift
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                                                            [p.] 238 

Know all men by these p'sents 
that I Rowland GRIFFITH of the County of Isle of Wight in Virginia, 
for the Natural love & affecçon, w.ch I have & bear towards Jane DESLOGES my 
Onely Daughter ["Daughr"] now Wife unto Michall DESLOGES, Taylor and for 
divers other good causes & consideraçons me thereunto moveing 
doe fully freely & absolutely give unto the said Jane DESLOGES my Daughter and 
to the heires lawfully begotten or to be begotten of her owne body 
all & singular my Estate visible & invisible that is or shall be called mine 
of whatsoever nature quallitie or Condiçon or what else shall be either Bill, 
debts, househould stuffe Chattell or what else shall properlie apportion[?] 
unto me att the hour of my death when it shall happen 
upon the provisoe following (vizt) 
that the sd Michaell DESLOGES, nor his said Wife my Child shall in noe wise 
sell nor imbezle any part of the said Estate soe left or shall be leftt to 
them att the hour of my death, 
but onely for their proper & necessarie use onely 
And if it shall please the Lord to call out of this mortall life, my s'd 
daughter before the hour of my death without any Children of her owne body 
that then it is hereby decleared these p'sents to be void & of noe effect as 
if these p'sents had never been granted 
And for the oversight & care that my said Sonne & Daughter, shall in noe waies 
imbezle the s'd Estate now soe given by me to them, & to their heires but 
onely for the proper & necessary occasion, that is to say for their provision 
or Apparell onely, 
Or that the same nor noe part thereof shall be taken away for his debts 
I doe hereby appoint my loveing friends Rob.t KAE & Charles WILLIAMS both of 
this County to call in question and recall these p'sents and the same to be 
void, or altogether Null as if these p'sents had never been granted 
And I doe likewise reserve y.e priveledge att the hour of my death to give out 
of my Estate, what Legacies I think fitt w.th out any question to be made by 
my s'd Sonne & Daughter to the Contrarie 
And in Consideraçon hereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seal this Ninth day 
of August 1671
                                            Rowland  +  GRIFFETH / Sigill 
Signed & sealed in y.e p'sence of 
     Rob.t HARRIS               Acknowledged in open Court by Rowland GRIFFETH 
     Rowland DAVIS              this 9.th day of Aug.t 1671 
                                And requested by him to be Recorded w.ch is 
                                performed 
                                      P formed me  John JENNINGS ["Jennigs"] 
                                                                 Clr Record'r 
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Isle of Wight Co., VA, Record of Deeds, Wills, Etc., Vol. 1 (1662-1715), p. 238
The Library of Virginia, Isle of Wight Co. Microfilm Reel 22 
abstracted by Matt HARRIS [surname capitalization, line breaks & brackets mine]

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