Harding/Harding Indenture, 1786

	This Indenture made this fourteenth day of August in the year of our 
Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six between John Harding and 
Nancy, his wife, on the one part, and Henry Harding on the other part, both 
of Montgomery County and state of Virginia witnesseth that the said John 
Harding and Nancy, his wife, for and in consideration of the sum One hundred
pounds, current money of Virginia, to him in hand paid the weight whereof 
they the said John & Nancy Harding doth hereby acknowledge that they the 
said John & Nancy Harding doth hereby give, grant, bargain & sell and doth 
by these presents give, grant, bargain sell a lien ??? and confirm unto the 
aforesaid Henry Harding, his heirs or assigns, one certain tract or parcel 
of land lying and being in the county aforesaid being the messuage whereon 
the said Henry Harding now lives, containing by estimation Three hundred 
acres be the same, more or less, being bounded in manner and form following 
to wit:  Beginning at a sycamore tree on the West branch of Little Reed 
Island Creek a corner of Richard Ellis & running thence up a valley along a 
line of marked trees made by mutual consent of said John Harding and said 
Richard Ellis to Fugate's line, now Adams', thence with his, turning to the 
left to Whitlock's line, thence with said Whitlock's line to two white oaks 
on the top of a hill thence leaving Whitlock's, running South sixty degrees 
East one hundred and forty-four poles crossing said Creek to a white oak and
dogwood saplings, North twenty-five degrees East one hundred and fifty-six 
poles to two white oaks on a hillside, thence North forty-two degrees East 
to the aforementioned Creek thence up the same crossing over the first 
station unto the aforesaid Henry Harding, his heirs and assigns forever.  To
have and to hold the said Messuage and tract of land to their own proper use
and behoof free from the claim, challenge or demand of any person or persons
whatsoever with all and singular its priviledges and appurtenances thereto 
belonging or in any wise appertaining unto the said Henry Harding, his heirs
& assigns forever.  And further the said

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John & Nancy Harding for themselves, their heirs, Executors, Administators 
doth covenent to and agree with the aforesaid Henry Harding, his heirs and 
assigns, that they the aforesaid John & Nancy Harding will and doth by these
presents warrant and forever defend the same.  In witness where of they the 
said John & Nancy Harding hereunto set their names and affixed their seals 
this day & year above written.
			John Harding (seal)
			Nancy Harding (seal)
			(her mark)
Signed, sealed & delivered in presense of
George Carter
Richard Ellis
John Smith
At a court held for Montgomery County the 2nd? day of June 1787.  The above 
deed of bargain & sale with the living & signer(?) was acknowledged by the 
said John and upon the passing examination of Nancy, his wife, she 
relinquishes her right of dower & the same is ordered to be recorded.
			Teste	
				Abram Trigg, Clerk, Montgomery County
Memorandum that the day & year within written, full quiet and peaceable 
possession of living & signer was given & made by the aforesaid John & Nancy
Harding unto the within named Henry Harding according to the full purpose, 
true intent & meaning of the within indenture and the right of the within 
consideration is here again acknowledged.
			John Harding (seal)
			Nancy Harding (seal)
			(her mark)
Signed, sealed & delivered in presense of
George Carter
Richard Ellis
John Smith	
		A Copy
			Teste
				J. M. Wade, Clerk

Transcription by Jim Sulcer
April 03, 1999


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