Westmoreland County, Virginia, Deeds and Wills Book One (1653-1671), page 317:

Spencer & Wife  )   Know all men by these presents that we Nicholas and Francis
      To        )   Spencer of nomony in the county of Westmoreland doe hereby
    Payne       )   bargain alien and sell and have hereby bargained aliened 
and sold from us our heirs Ex'ors Adm'ors and assigns unto John Payne of 
Machotecks of the aforesaid County his heirs and assigns for the consideration 
of four thousand pounds of tobacco and cask to us already paid all our right 
title and Interest of a tract of land granted by pattent unto the said 

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Payne bearing date the 1st day of June 1664. part of which said land is by
survey found to be within the bounds of a tract of land of two thousand five
hundred Acres lying at the head of nomony by pattent bearing date February
26th 1653. formerly granted unto Thomas Hawkins Sen'r and since by Thomas
Hawkins Jun'r son and heir of the said Thomas Hawkins Sen'r aliened and sold
unto us Nicholas and Francis Spencer our heirs & assigns as by conveyance
bearing date the 20th of September 1665 as p'r the records of Westmoreland
County doth appear we say we do and have hereby aliened and sold from us our
heirs unto John Payne his heirs and assigns all the land formerly and commonly
called John Paynes [here the clerk wrote "with" then lined it out] which doth
appear to lye and be within the bounds of the land formerly known and Called
Mr. Hawkin's land as the course of the said Paynes pattent and marked trees
doe make appear which aforesaid land by us hereby aliened and sold we doe
hereby oblige ourselves our heirs Ex'ors Adm'ors and assigns to defend and
make good unto the said John Payne and his heirs from the Just claim and
demand of every person and persons whatsoever  In Testimony whereof we have
hereunto set our hands & Seals this 14th of September 1667.
Teste                             Nicholas Spencer
  John Hewling  )                 Frances Spencer
  Wm Hambert    )  30th of October 1667.  This sale of land was acknowledged in 
                   Court by the said Nicholas Spencer and Frances his wife and 
                   then recorded. 


[Note:  The clerk transcribed the original records into a new book in 1801-02.  
At the beginning of Deeds and Wills Book One is this note:
"Deeds Wills pattents ye pc Begun
September 18th 1801 and Finished 18 January 1802--
By Order of the County Court of )    by Wm Spence
     Westmoreland               )         for
                                )  Jos. Fox Jun CWCounty"]



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