SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA - DEEDS - Grant to Simon Murfree, 28 Aug 1787
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[Land Grant to Simon Murfree, 28 Aug 1787, Southampton Co. VA]
[Land Office Grants No. 12, 1787, p. 602, Reel 78]
[transcribed by Mark A. Murphy, 19 Dec 2002]

602
Simon Murfree
345 Acres
Southampton
Exd.

Beverly Randolph Esquire Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of
Virginia to all to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye by
Virtue and in consideration of part of Land office Treasury Warrant
number nineteen thousand six hundred and ninety nine ISsued the third
day of october one thousand Seven hundred and eighty three, There is
granted by the said Commonwealth unto Simon Murfree a certain Tract or
parcel of Land Containing Three hundred and forty five acres by survey
bearing Date the third day of May one Thousand Seven hundred and eighty
six lying and being in the county of Southampton in the parish of
Nottoway two hundred and eighty one acres being formerly Granted the
residue never before granted and bounded as followeth To Wit Beginning
at a gum standing in the ceadir swamp a corner of a Tract of Vacant
Land thence along the line of the said Land West forty two poles to a
gum in the joining swamp thence up said swamp by a line of marked trees
two hundred and twenty nine poles to a gum a corner of Henry Cobbs Land
thence along his line South thirty three degrees Westerly nine poles to
a cypareSs in the cyprus Swamp thence up the run of said Swamp one
hundred and thirty two poles to a black gum in Albridgton Joness line
thence along his line north Seventy one

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degrees East thirty six poles to a dead pine thence fifty four degrees
East twenty five poles to a hickory thence north Ten degrees West
eighty four poles Red oak Rock corner of the Land late belonging to
Arthur Applewhite Dec'd thence along the lines of the same north thirty
four degrees East twenty six poles to a gum thence north thirty degrees
East eighty four poles a white oak stump thence north Eleven degrees
East forty three poles to a red oak thence South sixty nine degrees
East fifty one poles to an ash standing on the cedir swamp thence down
the run of said swamp two hundred twenty two poles to the Beginning
with its Appurtenances to have and to hold the said Tract or parcel of
Land within to the said Simon Murfree and his Heirs forever In WitneSs
whereof the said Beverly Randolph Esquire Lieutenant Governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and caused the
leSser seal of the Said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the
twenty eight day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and eighty seven and of the Commonwealth the Twelfth.
B. Randolph

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