[Patent to John Murfrey, 10 Jul 1680, lower p.ish Nanzemond, VA]
[Library of Virginia, Land Office Patents No. 7, p. 37, reel 7]
[transcribed by Mark A. Murphy, 22 May 2002]

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Murfrey
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To All &c Whereas &c Now Know yee that I the Said Thomas Lord Culpeper
Baron of Jhonsway his Majties Lord Knt and Goborn.r &c Give and confer
[?] unto John Murfrey one hundred and Sixty acres of Land and Marish
lying in the Lower p'ish of Nanzemund begining at a black burnt great
pine Standing at the Mouth of a gult or branch called Brownes branch
on a point that runs up or by or nigh the first branch South South 
EaSt Sixty pole to a small saplin Cone[?] pine on Soe then EaSt by 
South EaSterly sixty Eight poles by an old starthing[?] neare the said
Murfeys now smelting[?] houSe thence South by WeSt inclining sometimes 
WeSterly sometimes Southerly by a line of old marked trees one hundred
& three pole to a great [edr dabole?] w'th a broken foxx being the 
Corner tree to the Gloab Land thence EaSt by South one hundred pole to
a great white oake by the swampe Side thence North EaSt by North by
markt tree one hundre thirty two poles along the swamp side to a markt
black stump & then WeSt South WeSt sixty six pole to a markt gum in the
Coarse granted then West North WeSt & Northerly twenty six pole to a
great poplar by a bearing side then by or night the branch side North
& EaSterly fifty pole to a greath hollow poplar standing by or nigh the
Skasmators[?] branch then Downe the said branch to the Creeke and on
downed the Said creeke for bounds inwarding to the Sothewall[?] 
coarSings[?] to the Mouth thereof by Nanzemund river and soe up along
the North side by the river but it comes to a small gutt or Creeke it
ples[?] this from the Land and Marsh of Capt Edward Stroater and soe
runs by as the Said Gutt or Creeke till it winds to the firSt point on
which the black pine first stumpe the beginning one hundred acres of 
the Said Land being Ind.[?] & pt of a Pattent of two hundred acres 
ensummed[?] to Matthew RobinSon Dated the Eighteenth of AuguSt one
thouSand Six hundred thirty and wabon[?] which after Soterall[?] Sales
& Surrenders is now the right of the Said John Murfry & the reSidue 
being Marsh[?] and Bosphis[?] Land held by the Said Murfry & w'thin the
bounds and andift[?] trees as aforeSaid intending the Said guarantity
the Said Land being and by and for the Transportation of six pson &c
To have and to hold &c to be held &c yielding & paying &c p'baded[?] &c
dated the Tenth~~ day of July the one thousand six hundred & Eighty
Jno. Murfry-

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