| The Right
Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron in that part of Great
Britain called Scotland Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia To
all to whom this present writing shall come sends greeting Know Ye that
for good causes for and in consideration of the composition to me paid
and for the Annual Rent hereafter Reserved I have Given Granted and
Confirmed and by these presents for me my Heirs and Afsigns Do Give
Grant and Confirm unto Mr. Augustine Washington of the County of
Westmoreland a certain Tract of waste and ungranted Land in Frederick
County joining the Lines of Robert Worthington, Henry Bradshaw and Major
Lawrence Washington, bounded also by a Survey thereof made by Mr. George
Washington as followeth Beginning at a White Oak Washingtons
Corner and running thence with his Lines North One hundred and ten poles
to a White Oak and Red oak on the East side of a Glade thence No 89 Et
Two hundred and Eight poles to a Large Red Oak and small Hiccory Thence
W 19 1/4 Et Two hundred and sixty three poles to three Locusts in
a Bottom Thence Leaving his Lines and extending thence No 83 Et
Eighteen Poles to a Double hiccory on a Limestone Rock Henry Bradshaws
Corner Thence with his Line So 70 Et One hundred and twenty
six Poles thence So 19 Wt Three hundred and forty poles to a
Corner of Major Lawrence Washingtons Land Thence with his Line West Two
hundred and sity Poles to another corner of Washingtons and the said
Lawrence Washingtons. Three hundred and fourteen Poles to the
Beginning Containing Five hundred Acres Together with all Rights members
and appurtenances thereunto belonging Royal Mines Excepted and a full
third part of all Lead, Copper, Tinn, Coals and Iron Ore that shall be
found thereon To have and to hold the said Five hundred Acres of
Land Together with all Rights Profits and benefits to the same belonging
or in anywise appertaining Except before Excepted To him the said
Augustine Washington his heirs and Afsigns for Ever He the said
Augustine Washington his heirs or Afsigns therefore Yielding and Paying
to me my Heirs or afsigns or to my certain Attorney or Attorneys Agent
or Agents or to the certain Attorney or Attorneys of my heirs or afsigns
Proprietors of the said Northern Nect Yearly and every Year on the First
day of St. Michael the Arch Angel the Rent of One shilling Sterling
money for every Fifty Acres of Land hereby granted and so proportinably
for a greater or Lefser Quantity. Provided that if the said
Augustine Washington his heirs or Afsigns shall not pay the before
Reserved Annual Rent so that the same or any part thereof shall be
behind and upaind by the spadce of Two whole years after the same shall
become due if Lawfully Demanded that then it shall and may be Lawfull
for me my Heirs or Afsigns Proprietors as aforesaid my or their certain
Attorney or Attorneys Agent or Agents unto the Above Granted Premifses
and Hold so as if this Grant had never Pafsed. Given at my office
in the County of Fairfax within my said Proprietary under my hand and
Seal Dated this Seventeenth .... day of October in the Twenty fourth
Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the second by the grace
of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the
Faith One thousand seven hundred and fifty. |
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