Deed: George Edwards to William Greenlaw (17??-1811), Richmond Co. VA
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August 19, 1782, George Edwards to William Greenlaw (17??-1811) (#302), 
Purchase of "Pantico," Deeds of Richmond Co., Virginia 

Know all men by these presents that I George Edwards of the County of 
Richmond and Parish of Lunenburg am held & firmly bound unto William 
Greenlaw his heirs & assigns in The ?? Sum of Two hundred pounds current 
money of Virginia for The which Payment will and truly to be made & done 
I bind my self my heirs Executors administrators etc. In Witness which 
of I have hereunto set my hand & seale this Nineteenth day of August One 
Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty Two. The condition of the above 
obligation is such that whereas the above bound George Edwards some 
months ago Purchased of Mr. Robert Wormsley Carter a Tract of Land 
called Pantico for three hundred & fifty acres be the same more or less. 
The said Carter not yet having Made Deeds of Conveyance for the said 
tract of land to the said Edwards. Now it is that the said George 
Edwards, having sold the said tract to the above named William Greenlaw 
his heirs etc. the said Edwards do hereby bind himself his heirs Exetrs 
administrators & assigns that he will cause or Procure good & lawfull 
deeds for the Sure Conveying & safe making the said tract of land to the 
said William Greenlaw & his heirs by the said Carter or himself or his 
heirs etc. The day & year above written. George Edwards. Witness Griffin 
Garland. 
(NOTE FROM RESEARCHER: Robert Wormsley Carter protested the conveyance 
of this land after the death of George Edwards, to whom he had never 
transferred title, and William Greenlaw brought suit in court. After 
pending in court for five years, Greenlaw won title to the property, and 
the subsequent final transfer of title from Carter to Greenlaw took 
place in 1787. This deed of 1782 is the earliest one of record for 
William Greenlaw of Virginia.)

Fran Bennett
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