[Patent to John Murfrey, Jr., 20 Apr 1685, Nansemond Co, VA]
[Library of Virginia, Land Office Patents No. 7, p. 455-456, reel 7]
[transcribed by Mark A. Murphy, 29 May 2002]

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Murfrey
Jun'r
650

To All &c Whereas &c Now Know yee that I the said ffrancis Lord Howard
Govern'r &c doe w'th the advise and comfort fo the Councill of State
accordingly give and grant unto John Murfrey Junr in right of SuSanna
his wife six hundred and fiftie acres of Land lying and being in the
upper pish of Nanzamund County at the head of a Creeke called Domphin
[?] Island Creeke begining at a small willow standing in the branch 
oppoSite to Capt. JeSsys houSe and runs North by the land of Porvine[?]
three hundred and twentie pole to a gum thence by the head line of 
Murdah and Sanders WeSt and by South to Sanders his Corner Gum thence
by the line of Wright South Sixty six pole to a white oake thence North
Seventie six degree Easterly five hundred fortie nine pole to a pine in
a woody pagnoSon[?] thence North three hundred ninety five pole to a
great warrior[?] white oake standing

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in the Manus Swamp thence WeSt halfe Southerly thirty pole to a rod
unto standing by the houSe road thence by the Said Road to a psimon
standing in the head of a branch thence as the said branch runs downe
to the first station intending the said guarantite & the said Land 
being formerly granted by pattent to Samuell Stephens Jun the twentieth
1639 for two thousand acres and after foreswall[?] Surrenders berunning
[?] due to the orph's of Thomas ffrancis was reforming to & pattented
& his their names for nine hundred acres October 20th 1665 but 
misbounded this being by Legall dispose the pper right belonging to the
said SuSannah one of the orphans of the said Thomas ffrancis To have 
and to hold &c To be held &c yeilding and paying &c p'mised &c dated
the twentieth day of Aprill one thouSand six hundred Eighty and five.

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