[Land Patent to Dorcas & Susannah Murphee, 22 Feb 1724, Norfolk Co. VA]
[Library of Virginia, Land Office Patents No. 12, 1724-1726, p. 183, reel 11]
[transcribed by Mark A. Murphy, 30 Jan 2002]
[page also contains patent for William Reeves]

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Dorcas Murphee & Susannah Murphee
90
New Land
Hamnin i. pago[?] 

George &er To All &er Know ye that for Divers good Causes and
Considerationss but more especially for and in Consideracon of the Sum
of Ten Shillings of good and lawful mony for our use paid to Our
Receivor General of Our Revenues in this Our Colony and Dominion of
Virginia We have given granted and Confirmed and by these presents for
us Our Heirs and SucceSsors Do give grant and Confirm unto Dorcas
Murphee and Susannah Murphee one Certain Tract or parcell of Land ^
containing ninety acres lying and being in Norfolk County on the North
East side of a Creek called and known by the Name of Galons Creek H.
Coinga[?] branch of Fannons Crook and bounded as followeth (to wit)
Beginning at a pine a corner Tree of Thomas and James Simons there
Land and a Pine Tree of James Jacksons Land runing thence bounding on a
Line of marked Trees- dividing this and the Land of Thomas and James
Simons SouthWesterly sixty one Degrees Ninety three poles to a Gum at 
the Head of a branch on the Small Creek that divided this Land from
the Land of the said Thomas and James Simons then begining at the first
Station and runing bounding on a Line of mark't Trees dividing the Land
from the Land of James Jackson North weSterly thirty three and half
Degrees thirty two poles to a Gum standing in the Prim[?] of Poatond[?]
branch thence runing down the SouthSide poatond[?]- branch according to
the Several CourSes ther of the Galons Creek Thence runing up the North
west side of Galons Creek according to the Several CourSes thereof and
bounding thereon to the mouth of a small branch dividing the sd[?] Land
from the Land of the Said Simmons & Thence runing up that creek to a
marked Gum Standing at the End of the Line of South westerly sixty one~
degrees With all &er To have hold er To hold &c er Yielding and ~ 
paying er provided er In witneSs er witneSs our Trusty and Well beloved
Hugh Drysdale Esqr. Our Lien't Gov'er at Williamsburgh under the Seal 
of our Said Colony the Twenty Second day of February one thousand~
seven hundred and Twenty ffour in the Eleventh Year of our Reign~
Hugh Drysdale
Ex.a

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