Deed - Edwin Stallings To E.A.Poarch 
(Deed Book 17, page 83 & 84, Sussex Co. VA.)

THIS DEED OF SALE made this 23rd day of August in the year 1905,by and
between Edwin Stallings of the County of Sussex, Va. of the 1st part,
and E.A. Poarch of the County of Dinwiddie, Va. of the 2nd part,
witnesseth: That for and in consideration of the sum of three thousand
dollars fifteen hundred dollars cash in hand paid, the receipt whereof
is hereby acknowledged, and the remaining fifteen hundred dollars to be
paid in three equal installments of five hundred dollars each, with
interest from date, in one, two, and three years, the party of the 2nd
part to execute three notes of five hundred dollars each, payable to
the said party of the 1st part, as follows: one note to be paid on the
1st day of January 1906, one note on the 1st day of January 1907, and
the third note or last note on the 1st day of January 1908, the said
party of the 1st part doth sell and convey with general warranty, unto
the party of the 2nd part, all of that certain tract or parcel of land
with all the appurtenances thereto belonging (except the Grave Yard,
thirty feet square, with the right of ingress and egress thereto, which
is reserved to the party of the 1st part) lying and being situate in 
the County of Sussex, State of Virginia containing three hundred and
six acres more or less and bounded as follows; North by the lands of 
Sem Hill, East by the lands of Robt. K. Bass, South by the lands of 
R.K.Bass and Richard H. Robinson,West by the lands of Wm.Long,Chas.
Trisvant and Isham Ruffin, it being the same tract of land conveyed by
Deed to Z.W.T. Mitchell by R.E. Thornton, Robt.H. Robinson & wife and
Thomas H. Applewhite, dated April 4th 1872, And recorded in the County
Clerks office of Sussex Co. Va. Deed book No.1, page 637, & conveyed
by deed to Edwin Stallings, by Z.W.T. Mitchell & wife and of record in
Clerks Office of Sussex Co.Va. Deed Book No.2, page 699, to which deeds
reference is here made for a more minute description thereto, and the
said party of the 1st part doth further sell and convey with special
warranty on the above consideration that certain tract or parcel of 
land situate in the County of Sussex, Va. with all the appurtenances 
thereto belonging containing five acres, it being a part of the above 
mentioned tract, which was reserved in deed by Mitchell & wife to
Stallings dated 22nd day of December 1882, and recorded in the Clerks
Office of Sussex Co. Va. and the same tract of deliquent land sold and
conveyed by deed to E.Stallings by L.P. Hargrave, Clerk of the Sussex 
County Court, by order of said Court said deed dated 11th day of April
1902, and recorded in the Clerks Office of Sussex County, Deed Book 
No.14, page 501, to which deed reference is hereby made for a more 
particular description of said land, and the said Edwin Stallings,
covenant that he has the right to convey the said land to the grantee
that the said land is free from all incumbrances whatsoever that he has
done no act to encumber the same,and that he will execute such further 
assurancees of and for the said land as may be requisite.It is further
covenanted that the party of the 2nd part is to pay the tax on the land
for the year 1905, and to pay for one fourth of the fertilizer used on
the land this year (1905) and collect and have all rents accuring on
said land for the year 1905, Witness my hand and seal this ___ day of
August in the year 1905.
Exd. Edwin Stallings (seal).

Virginia,Sussex County,to wit:
I, Jno.E. Baugh,a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Sussex,
State of Va.whose term of office expires on the 3rd day of January 1907
do hereby certify that Edwin Stallings whose name is signed to the 
annexed writing personally appeared before me in my County & State 
aforesaid, and acknowledged the same. Given under my hand this ___ day
of August 1905.
Jno.E.Baugh J.P.

Virginia:-In the Clerks Office of Sussex County Circuit Court Augt.26,
1905. This Deed of Sale of 311 acres land from Edwin Stallings to E.A.
Poarch was this day lodged in the said office and,with the Certificate
annexed, admitted to record.
Teste: L.P. Hargrave, Clerk

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