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1762 - Albemarle Co. pp. 242/243
This indenture made this[blank]day of [blank]month, one thousand seven hundred and sixty two[1762] between Peter Hairston of County of Albemarle of one part and Joseph Dawson of Amherst County, that the said Peter Hairston for sum of forty eight pounds of good and lawfull money to him paid doth sell Joseph Dawson and to his heirs one certain parcel of land lying in County of Albemarle in the North Garden bounded beginning at pointers of bushes in Robert Lewis line running thence on his line South and East to a chestnut oak and South and East to a red oak thence on a new line North and East to a hiccory North to a hiccory North and West to a red oak saplin North and West to pointers West to a white oak North and West to a poplar in the fork of a branch and South fifty five degrees West sixty eight poles to the first station containing by estimation two hundred and fifty acres be the same more or less... Peter Hairston At a Court held for Albemarle County the xivth[14th] day of October 1762 This indenture memorandum and receipt were acknowledged by Peter Hairston party thereto and ordered to be recorded. Agnes the wife of said Peter personally appeared in Court and being privily examined as the lawdirects voluntarily relinquished her Right of Dower to the Estate conveyed by the said indenture. Test Henry Fry Clk[Clerk]
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