Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Patents.....Britt, John, 1760 

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Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Land Records 
     John BRITT, patent, 383 acres, 26 Sep 1760 

[margin note]  John Britt } 
                383 Acres } 

George the second &c  To all &c  Know ye for divers good causes 
and Considerations but more Especially for and in Consideration of the 
Sum of Forty Shillings of good and lawful Money for our Use paid to our 
Receiver General of our Revenues in this our Colony and Dominion of 
Virginia  We have Given Granted and Confirmed and by these presents 
for us our Heirs and Successors Do Give Grant and Confirm unto 
John Britt one Certain Tract or Parcel of Land Containing three ~ 
hundred and eighty three Acres lying and being in the County of 
Southampton on the North side of Seacock Swamp and bounded as 
Followeth  to wit  Beginning at a red Oak a Corner to Joseph Turner's 
Land  thence South eighty eight Degrees West one hundred and twenty 
four poles to a black Oak another Corner of the said Turner   thence 
South eighteen Degrees West sixty poles to a black Oak  thence South 
sixty two Degrees East four hundred and ninety poles to a Turkey 
Oak Colonel Richard Cock's Corner  thence North sixteen Degrees 
West one hundred poles to a pine  thence North thirty five Degrees East 
fifty four poles to a white Oak  then North fifty five Degrees West 
forty poles to a Black Oak  thence South twenty five Degrees 
West fifty poles to a black Oak  thence North fifty seven Degrees 
West two hundred poles to four trees Chop'd Inwards  thence 
North West by West two hundred and twelve poles to the Beginning  
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[p.] 946) 

With all &c  To Have hold &c  To be held &c  Yielding and 
Paying &c  Provided &c  In Witness &c  Witness our Trusty 
and welbeloved Francis Fauquier Esquire our Lieutenant 
Governor and Commander in Chief of our said Colony and 
Dominion at Williamsburgh Under the Seal of our said 
Colony the twenty sixth Day of September one thousand 
seven hundred and sixty In the thirty fourth Year of our 
Reign 
                                     Fran: Fauquier  
[margin note]  Examd. 


Virginia State Land Office Patents No. 33 (1756-1761), pp. 946-47 
The Library of Virginia (LVA), Richmond, VA, 
   Land Office Microfilm Reel 32 

images online at the LVA's Virginia Memory website (Digital Collections): 
http://www.virginiamemory.com/


Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Matt Harris, zoobug64@aol.com [brackets & line breaks mine] 

[BRITT, COCK, COCKE, TURNER] 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/deeds/33pb946.txt