[Richard Murphy Land Patent, Halifax Co. VA, 29 May 1760]
[Library of Virginia, Land Office Patents No. 33, 1756-1761,
v. 1, 2, 3 & 4, p. 1-1095, pp. 802, 803, reel 31-32]
[transcribed by Mark A. Murphy, 29 Jan 2002]
[other patents for John RuSsell & James Parish on these pages]

802...

Richd. Murphey 
400 Acres
Farm Page 1.

George the second &c To all &c Know ye that for divers good causes &
considerations but more especially for and in consideration of the sum
of Forty Shillings of good & lawfull Money for our use paid to our 
Receiver General of our Revenues in this our Colony and Dominion of 
Virginia We have Given Granted and confirmed and by the Presents for us
our Heirs and SucceSsors Do Give Grant and Confirm unto

803

Richard Murphey one certain Tract or [parcel of Land...?] lying and 
being in the County of Halifax [in our said Colony of Virginia? & 
bounded?] as followeth, to wit, Beginning at the North of [...? Sixty
poles?.... River as at Mar..? a Kearny and May?.. Smith's Line..?..
Degrees..?..] now lives South thirty one Degrees West one hundred and 
sixty poles to a [Spanish?] oak and a Pine [saplin?] South sixty three
Degrees West forty eight Poles to [the] Spruce Pines and a Pine Saplin
South forty two Degrees West one hundred [thirty?] and a half Poles to
a red oak Saplin North twenty five Degrees West one hundred and fifty
eight Poles to a [Small?] pine North forty Degrees West [seventy?] 
Poles to a Small Black oak on Allens' bank aforesaid and thence down
the [river?] as it Meanders to the first Station.  With all &c To have
hold &c To be held &c Yielding and paying &c Provided &c In WitneSs &c
WitneSs our Trusty and well beloved Francis Fauquier Esquire our
Lieutenant Governor and commander in chief of our said colony and 
Dominion at Williamsburg and on the seal of said Colony the twenty 
ninth Day of May one thousand seven hundred and sixty In the thirty
third Year of our Reign ~
Fran Fauquier

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