Loudoun County, VA - Deed Book 3 ************************************************************************ 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. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ LAND RECORDS -3V: Page 34-35 COCKE TO JAMES FEB 1831 COCKE TO JAMES: Whereas John Spencer did on the 27th day of April eighteen hundred and five, purchase from me, what I then considered my interest in one third part of a large tract of land, said to contain more than two thousand acres, lying in the County of Loudoun near the Gum Spring, and originally granted to my grandfather Catesby Cocke, who left three children, John C. Cocke, William Cocke, and Elizabeth Cocke, and he for my interest in one third part of the land desived under the will of my Father William Cocke, agreed to pay to me the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, twelve months after date, and did on the said seventeenth day of April 1805 execute his note with his son-in-law Benjamin James as his security whereby he promised to pay to me, my heirs ---- the said sum of two hundred and fifty dollars twelve months after date, and I on the same date bound myself , heirs ---- by a written and sealed instrument, to convey to him the said JOhn Spencer; all my rights title and interest in & to one third part of the said land which he should pay to me the said two hundred and fifty dollars, which he had stipulated by his note to pay in the month of April Eighteen hundred and six the said John Spencer soon after left Loudoun County as I understand & died some where in the western part of Virginia, without paying any part of the money due on his note & Benjamin James his security paid the sun stipulated to be paid by the said note to Cuthbert Powell Esqr. by my direction, and claim the conveyance of my interest in the third part of the land afore said, stating that my title bond has been lost or mislaid and never put on record, now I the said Washington Cocke having recd. the full amount of two hundred and fifty dollars from the said Benjamin James agreed on for my interest any recourse against me or my heirs for defect of title in any manner, do hereby sell, transfer and convey unto him the said Benjamin James and his heirs forever all my right title and interest ( without future responsibility) in and to one third part of the land aforesaid described as patented to Catesby Cocke, and lying in the County of Loudoun near the Gum Spring and do hereby covenant for myself and heirs to warrant and defend unto him the said Benjamin James and his heirs the title herby conveyed, against the claims of all persons deriving title from me, excepting the heirs of the said John Spencer herein before named, with distinct understanding that I am only selling an interest existing in law or equity and transferred to the said James such right or title in and to one third part of the land herein before described as I may have under the will of my decd. father William Cocke and that I am neither directly nor indirectly to incur any cost, or charges in relation to the property hereby conveyed - In witness of the premises I the said Washington Cocke have hereunto to subscribe my name , and annexed my seal this ninth day of April Eighteen hundred & Thirty - Inter -----between the lines 6 & 7 - 15 & 16 - 24 & 25 - 33 & 34 - 36 & 37 - 41 & 42 made before signing sealing & delivery Signed sealed and delivery in presence of Thomas I Noland, Wm Chilton, John Harris, Horace Luckett, William K. Ish Washington Cocke (Seal) Loudoun County towith Clerk Office October 11th 1830 this Indenture was this day proved by the oath of Wm Chilton & Wm K. Ish and on another day to with February 14th was fully proved by the oath of Horace Luckett before me in Office aforesaid & admitted to record J. Bimns Clerk Transcribed and Submitted by: Sondra Foley Martin