SURRY COUNTY, VA - DEEDS - James Minge to Thomas Holliday, 9 AUG 1712 --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- Deeds: James Minge-Thomas Holliday, Southmark Parish, Surry Co, VA INDENTURE BETWEEN JAMES MINGE AND THOMAS HOLLIDAY 9 AUG 1712 THIS INDENTURE made ye twenty ninth day of August in the eleventh year of the reign of our sovereign Lady Queen Ann of Great Brittain &c. And in the year of our Lord Christ, one thousand seven hundred & twelve between James Minge, eldest son of James Minge deceased of the County of Prince George in Virginia of the one part & Thomas Holliday of the County of James Citty in Virginia of the other part. Whereas, the saidJames Minge by Indenture bearing date the 28th day of this instant month of August for the considereation therein expressed did bargain & sell unto the said Thomas Holliday all that, his tracts or parcell of land containing five hundred & forty acres lying & being in the parish of Southmark upon Josephs Swamp in the County of Surry and bounded as followeth (to witt): Beginning at a live oak corner tree standing in Robins Meadow near ye mouth thereof and a little below a branch running out of it thence upon the dividing line of William Flande's north eighty six degrees & a half easterly one hundred seventy and three chains to a corner red oak standing in an old line thence along that line south five degrees easterly six chains to a corner thence south thirty degrees easterly one hundred & fifteen chains to a forked black oak standing by a road commonly called Pidgeon Swamp Road thence north eighty two degrees westerly five hundred fifty & five chains to a corner white oak standing in a branch of Josephs Swamp then down the said branch & up the watercourse of the said swamp to the mouth of the aforesaid meadow & up that meadow to the place where it first began eit? the said lands being part of the bounds laid out by Mr. John Allen, surveyor of Surry County for two thousand eight hundred & odd acres for the use of the deceased, Mr. James Minge & is laid off & surveyed at the request of the first above named James Minge & granted to him by Pattent bearing date the twenty sixth day of Aprill last past? (as by the said Pattent may appear) all which said tract of land with the tenenents, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever with all proffits, commoditys, priviledges & advantages to the said granted premises belonging or any waise appertaining with all the reversion & reversions, remainder & remainders thereof. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said five hundred & forty acres of land with all wood, underwoods, swamps, marshes, low grounds, meadows, feedings, pastures with all other hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever unto the said Thomas Holliday, his executors, administrators & assigns from the day next before the date of these present Indenture unto the end & term of one year from thence next following to the intent that by virtue thereof & of statute for transferring uses into possession the said Thomas might be in actuall possession of the premises, lands & tenements & be thereby enabled to take & accept of a Grant & Release of the Reversion & Inheritance thereof to him, the said Thomas Holliday, his heirs & assigns forever as by the said recited Indenture more at large appeareth. NOW THIS INDENTURE WITTNESSETH THAT like said James Minge, above named for divers good causes & considerations him thereunto moving but more especially for in consideration of the sume of sixty pounds in lawfull mony of England to him in hand at & before the ensealing & delivery of these presents by the said Thomas Holliday well and truly paid the receipt whereof he, the said James Minge doth hereby acknowledge himself therewith fully satisfyed & paid & of every part & parcell thereof doth clearly acquitt & discharge the said Holliday, his heirs, executors, administrators & assigns forever by these presents hath given, granted, bargained, sold, remised, released & confirmed & doth by these presents give, grant, bargain, sell alien, enffeof, convey, remise, release & confirme unto the said Thomas Holliday, his actuall possession now being by virtue of the said recited Indenture of bargain & sale made to him of a year and of the said statute iso? & to his heirs & assigns the aforesaid five hundred & forty acres of land with the premises & appurtenances & all the estate rights, title, interests, property, claim & demand whatsoever of him, the said James Minge, of in & to the same & every part thereof unto all & singular its rights, members, jurisdictions & appurtenances together with all libertys, priviledges, profitts, commoditys & advantages & also all woods & waters, ways, roads,rivers, creeks, swamps, springs, fountains, marshes, meadows, feedings, pastures & his due share of all mine, mines & quarrys with all priviledges & its royaltys of hunting & haishing? fishing & feishing & all other commoditys & common of pasture hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever unto the said lands & premises belonging to appertaining or to any part thereof in a large & ample manner as it is granted to the said James by his Pattent & all the reversion and reversions & remainder & remainders thereof & every part thereof. TO HAVE & TO HOLD the said lands, tenements, hereditaments & the premises with all the appurtenances herein before mentioned to be granted to the said Thomas Holliday, his heirs and assigns & to his and their proper use & behoof forever. And the said James Minge, for him, his heirs, executors & administrators & assigns doth covenant & grant to and with the said Thomas Holliday, his heirs & assigns in manner following (that is to say) that he, the said James Minge, at the time of sealing & delivery of these presents hath good rightfull power & lawfull authority to sell & convey the said land & premises with all the appurtenances to the said Thomas Holliday, his heirs & assigns forever in fee simple & that by virtue of these presents, the said Thomas, his heirs or assigns shall for ever hereafter be & stand lawfully seized of a good, pure, perfect, absolute, indefizable estate of inheritance in fee simple of in & to the said granted lands & premises with the appurtenances shall & may from time to time forever hereafter quietly & peaceably enter into & upon the said premises & have, hold, use, occupy, possess, enjoy, the same & every part thereof peacably & quietly without the lawfull lett suitt hindrance dis-turbance, eviction, interuption or ejection of him, the said James, his heirs, or assigns or any other person whatsoever & that he, the said James, his heirs, executors & administrators shall & will for ever hereafter WARRANT & DEFEND him, the said Thomas, his heirs & assigns in the quiett possession & enjoyment of the said mentioned to be granted lands & premises & every part thereof free & clear of & from all former & others grants, bargains, sales, ffeefmints,? mortgages, jointures, dowers leases, judgments & extensions & incumbrances, rents or services whatsoever by him or them to be ujectded? or paid to any person for the same (only the quit-rents due & of rights accustomed to be paid to our sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs & successors for the same premises only excepted & foreprized. And the said James Minge, for himself, his heirs &c. doth further covenant & grant to & with the said Thomas, his heirs, and assigns (that is to say) that he, the said James, his heirs, shall & will from time to time & at all times for & during the terme & time of tenn years next ensuing the date of these presents at ye reasaonable request & at the costs & charges in the law, of the said Thomas, his heirs, or assigns, make seal deliver execute & acknowledge all & every other further lawfull & reasonable act & acts, thing & things, deeds, conveyances & assurances in the law whatsoever for the further better & more perfect assurance pure? making & conveying the said granted lands & premises with all the appurtenances to the said Thomas Holliday, his heirs & assigns forever. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the said James Minge, the party to these presents hath sett to his hand & seale the day & year first above written. James Minge sealed with a wafer In presence of: John Rokes? Thomas Cussons? William Kenhair? At a court held at Southmark for the County of Surry Aprill ye 15th 1713 This day appeared in court the within named James Minge & did acknowledge the within specifyed contents to be his reall act & deed which is ordered to be recorded & is recorded by: John Allen, Cl. Cur. Also appeared in court John Allen & did by virtue of a Power from Ruth Minge, wife to the within named James Minge freely relinquish her, the said Ruth's, rights of dower of in & to the within mentioned land and premises which is ordered to be recorded & is recorded by: John Allen, Cl. Cur. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Von Mings Stachon, vonstac@comcast.net ___________________________________________________________________