Nansemond County, VA  -  Deeds  -  Burwell RIDDICK and wife Ada B. RIDDICK
                                   to John SHEPHERD
                                   20 Feb 1894
                                   Deed of Bargain & Sale
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Burwell RIDDICK and Ada B. RIDDICK
To
John SHEPHERD

Nansemond Co., VA, Deed Book 34 (1893-1895), page 115
February 20, 1894

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       This deed made the 20th day of January in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and ninety-four between Burwell Riddick and Ada B. 
Riddick his wife of the County of Nansemond in the State of Virginia of the 
one part, and John Shepherd of the same County and State of the other part, 
Witnesseth: That in consideration of the sum of seven hundred and fifty (750) 
dollars the said Burwell Riddick and Ada B. Riddick his wife do grant with 
general warranty, unto the said John Shepherd and to his heirs and assigns 
forever, the following real estate, to-wit:
       All that certain lot or parcel of land situated on the east side of 
North Street in the town of Suffolk in said County and State, fronting on said 
Street fifty (50) feet and running back eastward therefrom on the north side 
ninety-four (94) feet and on the south side one hundred (100) feet, to the 
land of Sarah C. Nurney and bounded on the north by the land of George T. 
Holland, on the east by the land of Sarah C. Nurney, on the south by the land 
of Martha J. Johnson, and on the west by the said Street, and being forty-six 
(46) feet and eight (8) inches wide across the rear end  and being part of the 
land which by deed dated the 9th day of December A.D. 1890, and recorded the 
12th day of December A.D.1890 on page 258 in deed book No. 24, in the office 
of the Clerk of the County Court of said County, was sold and conveyed by 
John F. Pinner and wife unto said Burwell Riddick together with all and 
singular appurtenances belonging to the same.
	And the said Burwell Riddick covenants that he had the right to convey 
the said land to the said grantee, that the said grantee shall have quiet 
possession of the said land free from all encumbrances; that he has done no 
act to encumber the said land; and that he will execute such further 
assurances of the said land as may be requisite.
        Witness the following signatures and seals.

Witnesses                       Burwell Riddick (Seal)
                                Ada B. Riddick (Seal)

State of Virginia
County of Nansemond, to-wit:

        I, Wilbur J. Kilby, a Commissioner in Chancery, of the Circuit Court 
for the County aforesaid in the State of Virginia, do certify that Burwell 
Riddick and Ada B. Riddick, his wife whose names are signed to the writing 
above, bearing date on the 20th day of January, 1894, have acknowledged the 
same before me in my County aforesaid.
        Given under my hand this 19th day of January, 1894.

                                Wilbur J. Kilby
                        Commissioner in Chancery

In the Clerk's Office of Nansemond County Court the 20th day of February, 1894.
This deed was presented with the certificate annexed and admitted to record.

                Teste:  R. R. Smith, Clerk
                By:   A. P. Gomer, D. C.


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