Washington Co, VA indenture between Lewis Moor & Nicholas
FLEENOR Submitted by Edgar Howard ehoward@conknet.com

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	THIS INDENTURE made this sixteenth day of August in the 
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety six 
between Lewis Moor and Mary his wife of the County of Washington 
and State of Virginia of the one part and Nicholas Fleenor of the 
County aforesaid of the other part.  Witnesseth that the said 
Lewis Moor and his wife Mary for and in consideration of the sum 
of one thousand dollars to them in hand paid the receipt whereof 
is hereby acknowledged hath and by these presents doth grant 
bargain sell alien enfeoff {fig. Hand over, give up possession 
of} and confirm unto the said Nicholas Fleenor his heirs and 
assigns forever a certain tract or parcel of Land containing one 
hundred and ninety six acres be the same more or less lying and 
being in the County aforesaid granted to said Lewis Moor by 
Indenture of bargain and sale from Richard Moor and Elizabeth his 
wife recorded in the County court of Washington bearing date the 
sixteenth day of December 1794 lying on both sides of Abrahams 
creek a south branch of the North fork of Holsteins River bounded 
as follows, to wit:
BEGINNING on a rocky spur at a hickory corner to James Sproles 
land +he now lives on+ and with a line of the same thence North 
fifty nine degrees West one hundred and fifty six poles crossing 
the creek to three white oaks then leaving said line North forty 
one degrees West ?sixteen poles to a white oak north forty seven 
degrees East one hundred and ninety two poles to three white oaks 
near the top of a knob corner to Thos. Brights survey and with a 
line of the same South sixty two degrees East one hundred and 
sixteen poles to a spanish oak then leaving said line and running 
thence for a ?_ -mision line South twenty two degrees West eighty 
four poles crossing the creek to a buckey[e] and hickory Sapling 
South two degrees East fifty six poles [ I can't find the 2d page 
of this deed, there is little other data likely ]