JAMES CITY COUNTY – DEED: WILSON C. DURFEY AND JOHN P. MAUPIN, 1855

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James City County, Deed Book I, p. 101, November 10, 1851, recorded July 24, 
1855:
Wilson C. DURFEY purchases "Strawberry Fields"

Whereas at the sale of the real estate of the late John M. MAUPIN made this 10th 
day of November 1851, under a decree pronounced in the suit of MAHONE vs. 
MAUPIN--(illegible), Wilson C. DURFEY purchased a tract or parcel thereof called 
"Strawberry Fields," lying in James City County containing about 335 acres at 
the price of Two thousand two hundred and fifty five dollars for which he gave 
his bond as by said decree directed, which said tract is the same that was in 
the lifetime of said MAUPIN, bought by him of Robert ANDERSON (??(illegible) as 
by covenant dated the 25th day of January 1850 and lies on a Road leading from 
Williamsburg to JamesTown the further description and boundaries are given and 
depicted in a copy of a Survey and Plot filed in the suit of DURFEY vs. BOWMAN 
in the Circuit Court of James City County and the City of Williamsburg and to 
which reference is here made: which said house as by decree directed have been 
paid off and discharged reports of which have been duly made and confirmed: and 
whereas by an order made in the said suit of MAHONE vs. MAUPIN on the 3rd day of 
July 1855. A deed conveying said purchase to said DURFEY with special warranty 
was directed and Robert H. ARMISTEAD was therein and thereby appointed a special 
Commissioner for said purpose: This deed therefore made this 19th day of July in 
the year 1855 between the said Robert H. ARMISTEAD special Commissioner as 
aforesaid and Wilson C. DURFEY, witnesseth that in consideration of the 
premises, the said ARMISTEAD doth grant unto the said DURFEY the said tract or 
parcel of land called "Strawberry Field," as above depicted with its 
appurtenances and the said ARMISTEAD doth covenant to and with the said DURFEY 
that he will warrant specially the property hereby conveyed.
Witness the following signature and seal.______
              Ro. H. ARMISTEAD, Special Com. (Seal)

In James City County Clerk's office, July the 24th: 1855.
This day the foregoing Indenture of bargain and sale was acknowledged before me, 
in the office aforesaid, by Robert H. ARMISTEAD, a party thereto to be his act 
and deed and thereupon the same was admitted to record.
              Teste,
              Yh:  O. COGBILL C.