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JOB HUGHLEY LAND
DEED11,10
Loudoun County, Virginia Deed book M, p. 66, September 6, 1777
Deed - Bryan Fairfax to Job Hughley
THIS INDENTURE made the 6th day of September 1777 between Bryan Fairfax of the County of Fairfax of the one part, and Job Hughley of Loudoun County of the other part:
WITNESSETH: That the said Bryan Fairfax for and in consideration of the rents and covenants hereinafter expressed, doth grant unto the said Job Hughley, for and during the natural life of said Job Hughley, his son Abraham and Tabitha his wife, a certain parcel of land containing 150 acres, lying in the said county, and being part of a larger tract on the west side of Difficult run; bounded according to a survey as followeth:
Beginning at a red Oak standing on Trammell's Road, etc....
He, the said Job Hughley yielding and paying unto the said Bryan Fairfax, his heirs and assigns, on or before the first day of December 1777, the sum of one shilling, current money of Virginia, for every acre of land hereby leased; and from thence forward yearly, every year on the first day of December the like sum of one shilling per acre for every acre of land aforesaid, and the said Job Hughley will within three years from the date of this lease build a dwelling house at least 16 feet square, and such other houses as his occupation may require; and also plant and keep under good fence 100 apple trees, and 100 peach trees; and it is also covenanted and agreed between the parties that the said Job Hughley, his heirs and assigns will not make or tend or suffer to be made or tended, any tobacco or Indian corn on the aforesaid premises except about 5 acres of Indian corn in each year of the aforesaid term; and if it shall happen that all or any part of rent aforesaid shall be unpaid for the space of thirty days after the same shall have become due, if lawfully demanded and no sufficient distress can be found whereby the same may be levied that then it shall and may be lawful for said Bryan Fairfax, his heirs and assigns to re-enter and hold the same as if this deed had never been made; and the said Job Hughley, his heirs or assigns will leave the buildings, fences and orchards in good tenantable repair and will not place any sub-tenant on the premises during the term of this lease.
IN WITNESS whereof the said parties to these present have herewith set their hand and seal the day and year first above written.
s/ BRYAN FAIRFAX (LS)
s/ JOB HUGUELY (LS)
Sealed and delivered
In the Presence of
Robt Frier,
Jacob Huguely,
Matthew White
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