COPEN tracts: Prince William Co., VA

Documents transferring title of land to Quantico Marine Base, an 
addendum to Declaration of Taking No. 7 (when the government 
appropriated 50,000 acres of land -- homesteads and farms -- in 
Stafford, Prince William, and Fauquier to expand the marine base in 
1943). These are both surname COPEN tracts and are part of the 
government record of the 10 Declarations of Taking.



KOPP-646 UNIT
Parcel NO. 621

That certain piece, parcel or lot of land known as "Milton Copen"
Estate, containing 115 acres, more or less, about three miles west of
Independent Hill, and described as follows:

BEGINNING at A an ancient Red Oak corner to C. M. Copen, Jr., thence
to an easterly direction with Gregory line to a stone on a ridge near a
fence corner to Gregory; thence to old fence lien to the east bank of
Quantico Run, thence to said Run to L. D. Copen's corner at the road,
thence witih said road, the same being the outer boundary of my farm to 
the
beginning;

Being the same property devised to Annie E. Copen for life, with
remainder to George M. Copen and Margaret E. Copen, by Charles Milton
Copen, Sr., by will dated March 18, 1921, probated November 6, 1926,
recorded in Will Book 1, page 309. By instrument dated March 18, 1929,
recorded in Book 86, page 396, Annie E. Copen conveyed her life estate 
to
GEORGE M. COPEN and MARGARET E. COPEN.

LESS AND EXCEPT tract of 75 acres, more or less, conveyed by G. M.
Copen, et als, to Louis G. Suthard, by deed dated January 14, 1932, and
recorded in Book 90, page 336.

And including and intended only to include all right, title, and
interest in all of the land on the plat designated, "Addition to Marine
Corps Reservation, Quantico, United States vs. 50,000 Acres of Land,
Stafford, Prince William, and Fauquier Counties, Virginia, Kopp-646 
Unit,"
prepared by Division of Land Acquisition, Fish and Wildlife Service, 
United
States Department of the Interior.

[NOTE: This parcel of land consisted of 40.00 acres of land. The
government's "estimated fair compensation" for the tract was $540.]


KOPP-646 UNIT
Parcel No. 656

A certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situate in Coles
Magisterial District, adjoining the lands of C.M. Copen and others, and 
is
the residue of the following tact, and bounded as follows:

BEGINNING at A, an ancient marked red oak near the edge of an old
field, running thence S. 24 1/2 W. 80 poles to a planted stone in 
Chapmens
Copen's field, thence N. 71 1/4 W. 15.2 poles to a large red oak on teh
side of a hioll, thence N. 21 W. 215.5 poles to a stone pile between the
two small pines on the west side of hill at (4), thence S. 80(degrees) 
40
E. 153.9 poles to another stone pile around which are marked two pines 
and
red oak saplings on teh south side of a hill, thence S. 51(degrees) W.
125.3 to the beginning, containing 110 acres, and from which 10 acres 
have
been taken, leaving 100;

Being the same property conveyed to CHARLES MARION COPEN, by deed from
Charles Milton Copen and Annie E. Copen, his wife, dated January 19, 
1907,
and recorded in Book 56, page 455.

And including and intended only to include all right, title, and
interest in all of the land on the plat designated, "Addition to Marine
Corps Reservation, Quantico, United States vs. 50,000 Acres of Land,
Stafford, Prince William, and Fauquier Counties, Virginia, Kopp-646 
Unit,"
prepared by Division of Land Acquisition, Fish and Wildlife Service, 
United
States Department of the Interior.

[NOTE: This parcel of land consisted of 112.00 acres of land. The
government's "estimated fair compensation" for the tract was $1,650.]

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