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| Articles of agreement
made and Concluded upon the Account of Marrage Between Benjamin Bradshaw and Anne Macbride
both of St. Jameses Northham Parish in Goochland County, to all people to whom these
presents shall Come I Benjamin Bradshaw do Send Greeting Know ye that I the s.d Benjamin
Bradshaw for the Love and good Will that I Do bear unto Anne macbride do freely of my own
free and Volantary will. Do give unto her the said Anne Macbrid. all the following
Articles to her and to her proper use and Difpofal for Ever that is to say one young Negro
Wench Named Judith and her Increafe one good feather bed and furniture four good Pewter
Difhes two good pewter Bafons six good Pewter plates, and Six good Pewter Spoons, and I
the said Benjamin Bradshaw Do further Agree that the said Anne Mcbrid shall have full
power & pofsifsion of the Land Plantation whereon I now Live to be holden of her
During her Natural Life and at her Deceafe to return to my heir But if the s.d Anne Mcbrid
hath no Child or Ifsue by me Benjamin Bradshaw then the said Estate above mentioned to
return to my heir but not untill her Decafe as Witnefs my hand and Seals this Nineteenth
Day of Aprill 1753. |
Signed Sealed &
Delivered
In Presents of....................
James Mayo
Ares Layne
Elizabeth Curd. |
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Benjamin B Bradshaw (Seal)
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| At a Court held for
Goochland County August the 18th.1761. These Articles of Agreement were proved by
the Oath of Ares Layne & the Oath of Elizabeth Curd, now, Elizabeth Oglesby and on the
Motion of Anne Macbrid, now Anne Bradshaw & Relict of the said Bradshaw was admitted
to record. |
Teste.
Val Wood ClCur |
Source: Deed Book 8,
Pages 178-180: Goochland County Court House, Goochland, Virginia
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