Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Deeds.....Blow to Nicholson, 1818 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Deeds Peter BLOW & wife Elizabeth to Robert NICHOLSON, indenture dated 20 Oct 1818, privy exam 22 Oct 1818, proved 21 Dec 1818, entered 18 Jan 1819 [margin notes] Blow & wife to Nicholson Deed This Indenture made this twentieth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Between Peter Blow and Elizabeth his wife of the county of Southampton of the one part and Robert Nicholson of the aforesaid county of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Peter Blow & Elizabeth his wife for and in consideration of the sum of five thousand five hundred dollars current money of V:a to them in hand paid by the said Robert Nicholson at or before the ensealing or delivery of these presents the receipt whereof the said Peter Blow and Elizabeth his wife do hereby acknowledge & thereof acquit & discharge the said Rob:t Nicholson his heirs exe'rs. and adm'ors forever by these presents: He said Peter Blow & Elizabeth his wife have granted, bargained, & sold and by these presents do give grant, bargain & sell unto the said Robert Nicholson his heirs and assigns forever all that tract or parcel of land, situate lying and being in the aforesaid county Containing by survey eight hundred and sixty acres, be the same more or less & bounded as follows_ to wit Beginning at the head of the gum branch bounded by the lands of Thomas Ridley, Mary Jarrell, Sam. Blunt, Edwin Reese, Nath.l Simmons, Stith Nicholson and Benj.a Lewis and also the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents issues & profits thereof & also all the estate, right title interest claim & demand of them the said Peter Blow & Elizabeth his wife of in and to the said land & premises with appurtenances of in & to every part & parcel thereof To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of Land & premises with the appurtenances thereunto belonging unto the said Rob:t Nicholson his heirs & assigns forever by these presents, that they will forever warrant & defend the title of the said Land . In Testimony whereof we have hereunto Set our hands & affixed our seals the day and date above written Signed & acknowledged in } P: Blow ĪsealĪ the presence of } Elizabeth Blow ĪsealĪ Benj. Cobb W.m B. Goodwyn Jo.s Clanton Southampton County to wit We Benj.a Cobb and W.m B. Goodwyn Justices of the peace in the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that Elizabeth Blow the wife of Peter Blow parties ['to' omitted] a certain deed of conveyance of real estate to Robert Nicholson bearing date on the 20,th day of October 1818 & hereto annexed, personally appearred before us in our county aforesaid, and being examined by us privily and apart from her husband & having this deed aforesaid fully explained, to her, she the said Elizabeth Blow acknowledged the same to be her act and deed & declared that she had willingly Sealed & delivered the same and that she wished not to retract it. Given under our hands & seals this 22.nd day of October 1818 Benj. Cobb ĪsealĪ W.m B. Goodwyn ĪsealĪ [page break] [p.] 155 Southampton County In the Clerk's office the 21.st day of December 1818 This Indenture was proved by the oaths of Benj. Cobb, W.m B. Goodwyn, Justice Ja.s Clanton the witnesses hereto and together with the certificate therein endorsed certifying the acknowledgment and privy examination of Mrs. Elizabeth Blow were admitted to record. And at a court held for the aforesaid county in the 18,th day of January 1819 This Indenture and certificate as aforesaid were enterd upon the proceedings of the day Teste James Rochelle Cl Southampton Co., VA, Deed Book 15 (1818-1820), pp. 154-55 The Library of Virginia, Southampton Co. Microfilm Reel 7 images online at The Brantley Family Association Southampton Project: http://www.brantleyassociation.com/southampton_project/southampton_project_list.htm Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Matt Harris, Zoobug64@aol.com [brackets & line breaks mine] [BLOW, BLUNT, CLANTON, COBB, GODWIN, JARRELL, LEWIS, NICHOLSON, REESE, RIDLEY, SIMMONS, WILLIAMS]