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1700 On 22 July, Deed of Gift by Elizabeth Jenkins of Cittenbume Parish Rich Co widow & relict of Rowland Jenkins, late of same place, deceased, for love & affection gave to James Shippie, son of Richard Shippie, deceased, ... all my right to a 75 acre plantation in the aforesaid parish, now in the occupation of Robert Hinson. Witnesses: William Davis, Joseph Terwitt, John Burke. Ackn 7 Aug 1700. [1]

1708 To all Christian People .. I, Richard Ayliff of county Stafford, Planter, this Eighth day March 1708 .. in consideration of three English Servants, ten gallons of rum, & twenty pounds of sugar, paid by William Fitzhugh of Stafford County ., confirm all that tract of land containing 200 acres it being part of a tract or dividend of land on which Richard Ayliff now liveth which he formerly purchased of Robert Hinson[Hanson] deceased and the said 200 acres is bounded .. beginning at a marked Beech standing on the Mouth of a Branch of the Dam opposite to Daniel Fields & extending thence up the dam side thirty poles to a marked Spanish oak standing at the mouth of another branch of the said dam thence up the said Branch according to the several meanders thereof Westerly two hundred forty two poles to marked white oak standing on the said branch side thence North thirty four degrees to a marked red oak standing in the back line of the land of Joseph King thence along the said Joseph Kings Line to a marked hiccory Tree called the Crooked Hiccory standing by the horse road thence south 12 poles to a marked white oak thence SE 12 poles to a marked hiccory south 24 degrees East 128 to a branch of the darn and by the said branch Easterly by the meanders of the said branch 130 poles to the first mentioned Beech tree. Presence Thos. Fitzhugh [2]


Footnotes:

[1] Mary Marshall Brewer, Abstracts of Land Records of Richmond County, Virginia 1692-1704 (Colonial Roots, 2001), 75, citing 3-56, [GoogleBooks].

[2] Ruth Sparacio and Sam Sparacio, Deed and will book, Stafford County, Virginia 1699-1709 (Antient Press, 1987), 453, of 453-5.