VA Patents 1, p. 7-8
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Land Office Patents and Grants
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John Chen
1 Rood & 9 pole
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By the Govern[or] and Capt Gener[all] of Virginia
To all to whome these p[re]sents shall come greeting in our Lord God Everlasting Know yee that I S[i]r ffrancis Wyatt K[nigh]t Govern[or] and Capt Gener[all] of Virginia doe w[i]th Consent of the Councell of State give and grannt unto John Chew Merchant and to his heires and assignes for ever for the better conveniencie and more [...unreadable...] of his howse by him now erected and builded in the New Towne w[i]thin the p[re]cincts of James Citty one Rood & nine pole of ground lying and being [---?] about the said howse and [...unreadable...] Northward upon the said backstreete Southward upon [...unreadable...] of M[ister] Richard Stephens Merchant Eastward upon [...unreadable...] Hamor and Westward upon the [highway?] [...unreadable...] backstreete and being as part of his devidend hereafter by him elswhere to bee Chosen and planted To have and to hold the said one Rood and nine pole of ground w[i]th all and singular the app[ur]ten[a]nces togeather w[i]th all rights and priviledges thereto belonging to the sole and p[ro]per use benifitt and behoofe of him the said John Chew his said heires or assignes for ever Yeilding and paying unto the Tresurer and Company and to their Successo[r]s for ever yearely at the feast of St Michaell the Archangell for the said rood and nine pole of ground the fee rent of one peny In Witnes whereof I have to these p[re]sents sett my hand and the great seale of the Colony Given at James Citty the fowerteenth day of August in the yeares of the Reigne of o[ur] Siveraigne Lord James &c Angl the twoe and twentieth and Scot fifty Eight Anno domi one Thowsand six hundred twentie fower Col: Virga: the Eighteenth ~
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NOTE: Memo found on last page of Virginia Patents Book 1: "This Booke was Transcribed by Edward Harrison in the yeare 1685."
Surnames: CHEW, WYATT, STEPHENS, HARRISON.
NOTE: Transcriber's comments are in brackets [ ].
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