Deed - Jesse Lee to Joel Lee - 1815 - Sussex Co., VA


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Deed - Jesse Lee to Joel Lee - 1815
(Deed Book L, page 448, Sussex Co.VA.)

This Indenture made this twenty second day of March one thousand eight
hundred and fifteen between Jesse Lee and Nancy his wife of the one 
part and Joel Lee of the other part, Witnesseth that the said Jesse Lee
and Nancy his wife in consideration of two hundred and forty one 
dollars & twenty cents, to them in hand paid by the said Joel Lee at or
before the ensealing and delivery of these presents,the receipt whereof
is hereby acknowledged, have bargained and sold and by these presents
do and each of them doth bargain and sell unto the said Joel Lee his
heirs and assigns a certain piece or parcel of land situate lying and
being in the County of Sussex on the North side of the little swamp,
containing forty acres be the same more or less, and bounded by the 
lands of Hinchy Rochell, William H. Coman, James Rogers, William Graves
and the said swamp. To have and to hold, the said piece or parcel of
land unto the said Joel Lee his heirs or assigns with all and singular
the appurtenances thereto belonging to him the said Joel Lee his heirs
and assigns forever and we the said Jesse Lee & Nancy his wife for 
ourselves our heirs exor's. and admr's. the said tract of land unto the
said Joel Lee his heirs and assigns against the claim of the said Jesse
Lee and Nancy his wife their heirs and assigns & against the claim of
everry other person or persons whatsoever shall & will warrant and
forever defend by these presents. In Witness whereof the said Jesse Lee
and Nancy his wife hath hereunto set their hands & affixed their seals
the day and date first above written.

Signed & Sealed 
in presence of}
Jesse Lee (Seal)
Nancy(herXmark)Lee (Seal)


Sussex County to wit:We Pleasant Hunnicutt and John Cargill Magistrates
of the said County do hereby certify that Jesse Lee and Nancy his wife
parties to the within conveyance, have duly acknowledged the same 
before us on the twenty second day of March eighteen hundred & fifteen,
and the said Nancy being privily and apart from her husband, examined,
thouching the said conveyance, declared that she freely and voluntarily
relinquished her right of dower in the said Land, and that she wished
not to retract it, and each of them desired us to certify the said
acknowledgement and consent to the clerk of the County Court of Sussex,
in order that the said conveyance may be recorded. As witness our hands
& seals.

P. Hunnicutt (seal)
John Cargill (Seal)


On the 6th day of April 1815. This Indenture was presented for record,
and it appearing that the same was acknowledged by Jesse Lee and Nancy
his wife parties thereto, to be their act and deed before Pleasant
Hunnicutt and John Cargill two of the Justices for the County the same
is recorded in the clerks office of Sussex County Court.

Teste J.C. Bailey C.C.

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